Gloria Anzaldúa

Borderlands / La Frontera, 5th Edition (eBook, ePUB)

The New Mestiza 5th Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Named one of the Best Books of 1987 by Library JournalSelected by Utne Reader as part of its Alternative Canon in 1998One of Hungry Mind Review's Best 100 Books of the 20th CenturyRooted in Gloria Anzaldas experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity.Borderlands/La Fronteraremaps our understanding of what a border is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This edition, coming March 1, 2022, will be a more condensed edition, containing only the original text from 1987, and will be at a more accessible price point for readers. For those looking for a scholarly context to this crucial work, the Critical Edition is currently available.The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerfulall languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. In the borderlands new creatures come into being. Anzalda celebrates this new mestiza in bold, experimental writing. The Village VoiceAnzalda's pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands; that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America. Womens Review of Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aunt Lute Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781939904386
• Artikelnr.: 72329848

Autorenporträt

Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbian-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Aunt Lute, 1987), she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras (Aunt Lute, 1990) and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Persephone, 1981), winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Her works also include Interviews/Entrevistas (Routledge, 2000) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited with AnaLouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). She also authored three bilingual children's books, including Prietita Has a Friend/Prietita tiene un amigo. She taught Creative Writing, Chicano Studies, and Feminist Studies at University of Texas, San Francisco State University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and University of California Santa Cruz.



Gloria Anzaldúa passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Scholar Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards, including the Anzaldúa Scholar Activist Award and the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars, are awarded in her name every year.