Synopses & Reviews
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria Anzaldanduacute;aand#39;s mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout Anzaldanduacute;a weaves personal narratives into deeply engaged theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issuesandmdash;including the September 11th attacks, neo-colonial practices in the art world, and coalitional politics. She valorizes subaltern forms and methods of knowing, being, and creating that have been marginalized by Western thought, and theorizes her writing process as a fully-embodied artistic and political practice. Re-situating Anzaldanduacute;aand#39;s work within Continental philosophy and new materialism, Light in the Dark takes Anzaldanduacute;an scholarship in new directions.
Review
andquot;Gloria E. Anzaldua is one of the most generative and generous thinkers and story tellers in our times. In these rich auto-ethnographies she continues to search for what she calls the and#39;positive shadowsand#39; of personal and collective experience, spirit, and world. Anzaldua has the courage to write inside recesses and crevices to encounter what one does not necessarily want to know, but needs nonetheless to inhabit, tuned to change and possibility. In her unique speaking in entwined tongues, in Spanish and English, she is a multimodal guide in our hard times to and#39;active imaginingand#39; for worlds that may yet be. It is such a pleasure to see this book at last; it makes her legacy vivid when it is most needed.andquot;
Review
andquot;Ready to move beyond identity politics? Beyond contemporary theories of globalization, de-coloniality, feminism, Marxism? Then take this U.S. Third Space/Fourth World Feminist Liberationist ride on Anzaldanduacute;an rivers of thought. They carry away outmoded debris. Tributary streams nourish decolonial visions. Shimmering re-cognitions arrive. Perceptual light shifts, wreaking havoc, unleashing floods of liberation philosophy. Dizzy? Take the bookandrsquo;s medicine. It transforms refugees into citizen-
chamanas, political co-creators of how we will be known. Anzaldanduacute;a wonders: Do you have the yearning, the energizing power of life, the courage to join us?andquot;
Synopsis
Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldanduacute;aand#39;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.
About the Author
Gloria E. Anzaldanduacute;a (1942andndash;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 Womenandrsquo;s Studies at Texas Womanandrsquo;s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldanduacute;a, and Audre Lorde, Teaching Transformation, and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of Anzaldanduacute;aandrsquo;s Interviews/Entrevistas, The Gloria Anzaldanduacute;a Reader, and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldanduacute;a; and co-editor, with Anzaldanduacute;a, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.
Table of Contents
Editorand#39;s Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldanduacute;aand#39;s Twenty-First-Century Imperativeand#160; ix
Preface. Gestures of the Bodyandmdash;Escribiendo para idearand#160; 1
1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperativeandmdash;la sombra y el sueandntilde;oand#160; 9
2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realitiesand#160; 23
3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la fronteraand#160; 47
4. Geographies of Selvesandmdash;Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalismand#160; 65
5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Processand#160; 95
6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public actsand#160; 117
Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161
Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline)and#160; 165
Appendix 2. Anzaldanduacute;aand#39;s Healthand#160; 171
Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2and#160; 176
Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4and#160; 180
Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chaptersand#39; Developmentand#160; 190
Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volumeand#160; 200
Notesand#160; 205
Glossaryand#160; 241
Referencesand#160; 247
Index