Anzaldua / Keating Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7503-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anzaldua, Gloria

Keating, AnaLouise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative ix

Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear 1

1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 9

2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities 23

3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera 47

4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism 65

5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process 95

6. now let us shift. conocimiento. inner work, public acts 117

Agradecimientos Acknowledgements 161

Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline) 165

Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health 171

Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2 176

Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4 180

Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development 190

Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume 200

Notes 205

Glossary 241

References 247

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004) 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 Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, Teaching Transformation, and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.