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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451120103321

Titolo

Entremundos/among worlds [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa / / edited by AnaLouise Keating

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36791-5

9786611367916

1-4039-7713-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeatingAnaLouise <1961->

Disciplina

818/.5409

Soggetti

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Mexican American lesbians - Intellectual life

Mexican American women - Intellectual life

Mexican American women in literature

Mexican Americans in literature

Lesbians in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: shifting worlds, una entrada / AnaLouise Keating -- ; Part 1. autohistoria y autohistoria-teoria....(re)writing self, (re)writing culture -- Gloria y yo: writing silence and the search for the fronteriza voice / Zulma Y. Méndez -- The 1,001-piece nights of Gloria Anzaldúa: autohistoria-teoría at Florida Atlantic University / Caren S. Neile -- Reclaiming pleasure: reading the body in "people whould 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 -- ; Part 2. 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 -- ; Part 3. 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 / Mark W. Bundy -- New pathways toward understanding self-in-relation: Anzaldúan (re)visions for developmental psychology / Kelli Zaytown -- ; Part 4. 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 the philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa / Jane Caputi -- "Doing Mestizaje": when epistemology becomes ethics / Monica Torres -- ; Part 5. el mundo zurdo, the new tribalism....forging new alliances -- This is personal: revisiting 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-Ávila -- Shifting perspectives: spiritual activism, social transformation, and the politics of spirit / AnaLouise Keating.

Sommario/riassunto

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.