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Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.

Table of Contents
  • Con profunda gratitud
  • Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López)
  • I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"
    • 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo)
    • 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello)
    • 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (Anahí Viladrich)
    • 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia)
    • 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia Cantú)
    • 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Aída Hurtado)
  • II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark"
    • 7. Anzaldúa, Maestra (Sebastián José Colón-Otero)
    • 8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders (Claire Joysmith)
    • 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. Céspedes)
    • 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer (Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba)
    • 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang)
    • 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria González-López)
  • III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
    • 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath)
    • 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey)
    • 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs)
    • 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria)
    • 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
    • 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating)
  • IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
    • 19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega)
    • 20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta)
    • 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce)
    • 22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving)
    • 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura)
    • 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford)
  • V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness"
    • 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa (Suzanne Bost)
    • 26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought (Kavitha Koshy)
    • 27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun)
    • 28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (María DeGuzmán)
    • 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi)
    • 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem)
    • 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa (Becky Thompson)
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Contributors' Biographies
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/04/2011
      ISBN13: 9780292743953, 978-0292743953
      ISBN10: 0292743955
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.

      Table of Contents
      • Con profunda gratitud
      • Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López)
      • I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"
        • 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo)
        • 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello)
        • 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (Anahí Viladrich)
        • 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia)
        • 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia Cantú)
        • 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Aída Hurtado)
      • II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark"
        • 7. Anzaldúa, Maestra (Sebastián José Colón-Otero)
        • 8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders (Claire Joysmith)
        • 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. Céspedes)
        • 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer (Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba)
        • 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang)
        • 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria González-López)
      • III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
        • 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath)
        • 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey)
        • 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs)
        • 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria)
        • 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
        • 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating)
      • IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
        • 19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega)
        • 20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta)
        • 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce)
        • 22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving)
        • 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura)
        • 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford)
      • V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness"
        • 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa (Suzanne Bost)
        • 26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought (Kavitha Koshy)
        • 27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun)
        • 28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (María DeGuzmán)
        • 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi)
        • 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem)
        • 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa (Becky Thompson)
      • Notes
      • Glossary
      • Works Cited
      • Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
      • Contributors' Biographies
      • Index

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