Anzaldua Gloria Anzaldua

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

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Produktbeschreibung

Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375036
• Artikelnr.: 54784954

Autorenporträt

Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a visionary writer whose work was recognized with many honors, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, a Lambda literary award, the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, and the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Her book Borderlands / La frontera was selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by the Hungry Mind Review and the Utne Reader. AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, Teaching Transformation, and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality:
Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative  ix
Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear  1
1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la
sombra y el sueño  9
2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities  23
3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera  47
4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las
Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism  65
5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process  95
6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts  117
Agradecimientos Acknowledgements 161
Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents,
and Chapter Outline)  165
Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health  171
Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2  176
Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4  180
Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development  190
Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume  200
Notes  205
Glossary  241
References  247
Index  257