Synopses & Reviews
EntreMundos offers a multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work, which is frequently anthologized and often cited, as well as widely taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate level, has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory. Here scholars from a number of disciplines gather to reflect critically and anecdotally on Anzaldua's writing, her ideas, and the wider significance of her work. Highlighting some of Anzaldúa's lesser explored theories,
EntreMundos challenges readers to re-examine Anzaldúa's writings and theorizing from additional perspectives. The goal is to broaden Anzaldúan scholarship, shifting the conversation in new directions while underscoring the visionary yet pragmatic social-justice dimensions of her work.
Review
"This wide-ranging and imaginative volume offers invaluable insight into the work of one of the most important cultural theorists and creative writers of our time. One can only applaud the contributors' efforts to do justice to the scope and depth of Anzaldua's dazzlingly original poetry and prose. This bold and illuminating book will help scholars in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies and a range of other fields, come to terms with the rich, multivalent achievement of the incomparable Gloria Anzaldua."--Shelley Fisher
Fishkin, Stanford University, past-president American Studies Association
"Reading this intellectually delicious anthology reminded me of Anzaldúa's stunning genius. It provides further evidence that she belonged to all of us and none of us at the same time. This book is a tantalizing invitation to expand our understanding of Anzaldúa's ideas. As an educator and as a Chicana, I have been yearning for this anthology for some time."--Edén Torres, University of Minnesota
Synopsis
A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory.
Synopsis
This book offers a multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua; a figure whose work has expanded previous views in American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory.
About the Author
AnaLouise Keating's most recent book is
this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, co-edited with Gloria E. Anzaldúa. She is also the author of
Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; editor of Anzaldúa's
Interviews/Entrevistas; and co-editor of
Perspectives: Gender Studies. She has published articles on critical "race" theory, queer theory, Latina writers, African-American women writers, and pedagogy. An associate professor of women's studies at Texas Woman's University, Keating teaches courses on U.S. women of colors, feminist epistemologies, feminist theories, and Gloria Anzaldúa.
Table of Contents
i. Preface: Unfinished Words: The Crossing of Gloria Anzaldúa--Chela Sandoval * iii. Introduction: Shifting Worlds: Una Entrada--AnaLouise Keating * iii.
autohistoria y autohistoria-teoría. . . . (re)writing self, (re)writing culture * Gloria y yo: Writing silence and the search for the fronteriza voice--Zulma Y. Méndez * The 1,000-Piece Nights of Gloria Anzaldúa: Autohistoria-teoría at Florida Atlantic University--Caren S. Neile * Reclaiming Pleasure: Reading the Body in "People Should Not Die in June in South Texas"--Mary Loving Blanchard * Daughter of Coatlicue: An Interview with Gloria Anzaldúa--Irene Lara * Living in the House of Nepantla--Irene Reti * iv.
nepantla. . . . pathways to change * La Gloriosa Travesura de la Musa Que Cruza /The Misbehaving Glory(a) of the Border-Crossing Muse: Transgression in Anzaldúa's Children's Stories--Edith M. Vásquez * Apertures of In-Betweeness, of Selves in the Middle--Mariana Ortega * From within Germinative Stasis: Creating Active Subjectivity, Resistant Agency--María Lugones * Negotiating Paradoxical Spaces: Women, Disabilities, and the Experience of Nepantla--Carrie McMaster * v.
nos/otras . . . . intersecting selves/intersecting others * What Do You Learn From What You See? Gloria Anzaldúa and Double Vision in the Teaching of Writing--Eve Wiederhold * Reading National Identities: The Radical Disruptions of
Borderlands/La Frontera--Beth Berila * Teaching la Conciencia de la Mestiza in the Midst of White Privilege--Simona J. Hill * "Know Me Unbroken": Peeling Back the Silenced Rind of the Queer Mouth through the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa--Mark W. Bundy*New Pathways to Understanding Self-in-Relation: Anzaldúan (Re)Visions for Developmental Psychology--Kelli Zaytoun * vi.
conocimientos . . . . expanding the vision * "So Much Meat": Gloria Anzaldúa, the Mind/Body Split, and Exerting Control over My Fat Body--Elena Levy-Navarro * Champion of the Spirit: Anzaldúa's Critique of Rationalist Epistemology--Amala Levine * Shifting the Shapes of Things to Come: The Presence of the Future in Gloria Anzaldúa--Jane Caputi * Doing Mestizaje: When Epistemology Becomes Ethics--Mónica F. Torres * vii.
el mundo zurdo, the new tribalism . . . . forging new alliances * This is Personal: Re-Visiting Gloria Anzaldúa from within the Borderlands--Lee Maracle * Spirit, Culture, Sex: Elements of the Creative Process in Anzaldúa's Poetry--Linda Garber * Radical Rhetoric: Anger, Activism, and Change--Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar * Tierra Tremenda: The Earth's Agony and Ecstasy in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa--Inés Hernández-Avila * Shifting Perspectives: Spiritual Activism, Social Transformation, and the Politics of Spirit--AnaLouise Keating