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Coming into Play: An Interview with Gloria Anzaldua, in MELUS » Read Now
by Ann E. Reuman. 44 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Into Play: An Interview with Gloria Anzaldua by Ann E. Reuman...poet, writer, and theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldua, was born in Texas in 1942...soul. Selected Bibliography...
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Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out ("Gloria Anzaldua" begins on p. 19) » Read Now
by Donna Perry. 372 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of...
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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of contemporary literature. In direct, provocative conversation, these writers discuss their work and other topics: the influence of family members and their native communities, getting started as writers, writing as women, the role of "literary tradition" in helping or hindering their growth, the responsibility of the writer to the community, the question of writing accessibly versus experimenting, the energizing power of anger, the politics of publishing, and the impact of one's race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexual orientation on getting read, published, and reviewed.
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Hispanic-American Writers ("Crossing Borders: An Aesthetic Practice in Writings by Gloria Anzaldua" begins on p. 195) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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The Feminist Poetry Movement (Chap. Four "Survival as Form in the Work of Gloria Anzaldua and Irena Klepfisz") » Read Now
by Kim Whitehead. 272 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement & the American women's movement.
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Significant Contemporary American Feminists: A Biographical Sourcebook ("Gloria Anzaldua (1942-)" begins on p. 14) » Read Now
by Jennifer Scanlon. 361 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their...
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The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their various perspectives on and relations to the women's movement. Yet collectively, women's efforts--identified as second wave feminism--are seen as having made a difference. This book highlights the lives and work of fifty second wave feminists, women who have served as catalysts in the developing feminist movement. A diverse group--playwrights and politicians, grassroots organizers and scientists, poets and theologians--they provide the reader with compelling stories of individual women's lives, collective feminist struggles, and the possibilities of feminist social change.
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Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory (Chap. Six "'Caught in the Crossfire between Camps': Gloria Anzaldua") » Read Now
by Linda Garber. 262 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an...
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"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an eloquent challenge to the privileging of queer theory in the academy, Garber calls for recognition of the historical -- and intellectually significant -- role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. The connections, Garber shows, are most clearly seen when looking at the pivotal work of working-class lesbians/lesbians of color whose articulations of multiple, simultaneous identity positions and activist politics both belong to lesbian feminism and presage queer theory. Identity Poetics includes a critical overview of recent historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements of the 1970s; discussions of the works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa; and, finally, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies.
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Metaphors of a Mestiza Consciousness: Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, in MELUS » Read Now
by Erika Aigner-Varoz. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...text Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua constructs a mestiza consciousness...Traditions. Boston: Beacon, 1986. Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera. San...Back...
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U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (Chap. 12 "In Context: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza") » Read Now
by Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Fernandez Olmos. 216 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important...
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In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important writers as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Rudolfo Anaya in the curriculum. Without a guide, introducing courses on U.S. Latino literature or integrating individual works into the general courses on American Literature can be difficult for the uninitiated. While some critical sources for students and teachers are available, none are dedicated exclusively to this important body of writing. To fill the gap, the editors of this volume commissioned prominent scholars in the field to write 18 essays that focus on using U.S. Latino literature in the classroom. The selection of the subject texts was developed in conjunction with secondary school teachers who took part in the editors' course. This resultant volume focuses on major works that are appropriate for high school and undergraduate study including Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli, Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets, and Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
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Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Chap. 13 "Slash and Suture: Post/Colonialism in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza") » Read Now
by Sneja Marina Gunew, Anna Yeatman. 254 pgs.

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...This is a courageous book, exploring the frontiers and unspoken presumptions governing the ways in which otherness, ethnicity, race, migration, indigenous populations and...
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Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter ("Feminist Mestizaje: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands" begins on p. 93) » Read Now
by Susan Stanford Friedman. 308 pgs.

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In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to...
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In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed.
Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers a
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Gloria Anzaldua's Queer Mestisaje, in MELUS » Read Now
by Ian Barnard. 19 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Gloria Anzalduas queer mestisaje by Ian Barnard...Writer--Loca, escritora y chicane," Gloria Anzaldua contrasts the symbolizing power of...Identity, and Witness in the...
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Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (Discussion of Gloria Anzaldua begins on p. 209) » Read Now
by Hector Calderon, Jose David Saldedvar, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Trujillo. 312 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and support received from Gloria Anzaldua, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Paul...Perspectives By Women of Color , ed. Gloria Anzaldua. 1990. Reprinted by permission...writers...
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Chicana Artists: Exploring Nepantla, El Lugar de la Frontera, in NACLA Report on the Americas » Read Now
by Gloria Anzaldua. 6 pgs.

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...nepantla state, and it is an analog of the planet. BY GLORIA ANZALDUA I stop before the dismembered body of la diosa...Aztec: The World of Moctezuma" exhibition at the...
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(Out)Classed Women: Contemporary Chicana Writers on Inequitable Gendered Power Relations (Includes discussion of Gloria Anzaldua in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Phillipa Kafka. 184 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Critical discussions of the works of Chicana authors are invariably grounded in issues of power and politics. This book examines how contemporary Chicana writers have explored the subjugation of Chicanas. While Chicanos and Chicanas often suffer from the oppression of European Americans, Chicanas...
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Critical discussions of the works of Chicana authors are invariably grounded in issues of power and politics. This book examines how contemporary Chicana writers have explored the subjugation of Chicanas. While Chicanos and Chicanas often suffer from the oppression of European Americans, Chicanas are additionally oppressed by a cultural system that subordinates them even further because of their gender. The first part of the volume discusses the major concerns and themes of Chicana writers in terms of the problems caused by inequitable gendered power relations. In the second, the proposed solutions of Chicana writers are presented. The final portion of the volume explores the relationship between Chicanas and other women writers and critics of color, Jewish feminists, and the mainstream feminist movement.
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Culture and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States (Includes discussion of Gloria Anzaldua in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Antonia Darder, Henry A. Giroux, Paulo Freire. 288 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of...
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The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of "Warriors for Gringostroika" and "The New Mestizas." In the words of Anzaldua, "those who cross over, pass over . . . the confines of the normal.'" Critical essays follow by Mexicanas, poets, activists, and educators of all colors and persuasions. The collection coming out of the good work of the Southern California University system relates to all locales and spectrums of the human condition and will no doubt inspire excellent creativity of knowing and remembering among all who chance to read any part thereof.
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