Bridging : : How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own / / ed. by Gloria González-López, AnaLouise Keating.

The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Con profunda gratitud
  • Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century
  • PART I. The New Mestizas: “transitions and transformations”
  • 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa
  • 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30,000 Feet and 25 Years after Her “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers”
  • 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina
  • 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera
  • 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir
  • 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • PART 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
  • 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding
  • 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer
  • 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness
  • 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure
  • PART III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
  • 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy
  • 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit
  • 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist
  • 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community
  • 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds
  • 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives
  • PART IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
  • 19. “To live in the borderlands means you”
  • 20. A modo de testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia
  • 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology
  • 22. For Gloria, Para Mí
  • 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands
  • 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies
  • PART V. Todas somos nos/otras: Toward a “politics of openness”
  • 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa
  • 26. Feels Like “Carving Bone”: (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought
  • 27. Shifting
  • 28. “Darkness, My Night”: The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Aesthetics of the Shadow
  • 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa’s Liberating Vision
  • 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon
  • 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Contributors’ Biographies
  • Index