| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 361 pages.) |
| Series |
Latin America otherwise |
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Latin America otherwise.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, reading ourselves ... complex intimacies, intricate connections -- Part 1. "Early" writings: Tihueque ; To Delia, who failed on principles ; Reincarnation ; The occupant ; I want to be shocked shitless ; The new speakers ; Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers ; The coming of el mundo surdo ; La prieta ; El paisano is a bird of good omen ; Dream of the double-faced women ; Foreword to the second edition (of This Bridge Called My Back) ; Spirituality, sexuality, and the body: an interview with Linda Smuckler -- Part 2. "Middle" writings: Enemy of the state ; Del otro lado ; Encountering the medusa ; Creativity and switching modes of consciousness ; En rapport, in opposition: cobrando cuentas a las nuestras ; The presence ; Metaphors in the tradition of the shaman ; Haciendo caras, una entrada ; Bridge, drawbridge, sandbar, or island: lesbians-of-color hacienda Alianzas ; Ghost trap / trampa de espanto ; To(o) queer the writer -- loca, escritora y chicana ; Border arte: nepantla, el lugar de la frontera ; On the process of writing Borderlands / La Frontera ; La vulva es una herida abierta / the vulva is an open wound ; The new Mestiza nation: a multicultural movement -- Part 3. Gallery of images -- Part 4. "Later" writings: Foreword to Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol and spirit ; How to ; Memoir -- my calling; or, notes for "How Prieta Came to Write" ; When I write I hover ; Transforming American studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson prize acceptance speech ; Yemaya ; (Un)natural bridges, (un)safe spaces ; Healing wounds ; Reading LP ; A short Q & A between LP and her author (GEA) ; Like a spider in her web ; Bearing witness: their eyes anticipating the healing ; The postmodern llorona ; Speaking across the divide ; Llorona coyolxauhqui ; Disability & identity: an e-mail exchange & a few additional thoughts ; Let us be the healing of the wound: the Coyolxauhqui imperative -- la sombra y el sueno -- Appendix 1. Glossary -- Appendix 2. Timeline: Some highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century.
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Mexican American women authors -- 20th century.
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Mexican American lesbians.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Lesbians in literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keating, AnaLouise, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9780822391272 electronic bk |
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0822391279 electronic bk |
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