Entre Mundos/among Worlds - New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor ANALOUISE KEATING is Associate Professor at Texas Women's University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; C.Sandoval Introduction; A.Keating AUTOHISTORÍA Y AUTOHISTORÍA-TEORÍA...(RE)WRITING SELF, (RE)WRITING CULTURE Gloria y yo: Writing Silence and the Search for the Fronteriza Voice; Z.Y.Mendez The 1,000-Piece Nights of Gloria Anzaldúa: Autohistoría-teoría at Florida Atlantic University; C.S.Neile Reclaiming Pleasure: Reading the Body in Gloria Anzaldúa's People Should Not Die in June in South Texas ; M.Loving Blanchard Platicando con Gloria: An Interview; I.Lara 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; E.M.Vásquez From Within Germinative Stasis: Creating Active Subjectivity, Resistant Agency; M.Lugones 'This Thin Edge of Barbwire': Selves from the Land in the Middle; M.Ortega The House of Nepantla; I.Lara NOS/OTRAS...INTERSECTING SELVES/INTERSECTING OTHERS Discovering La Conciencia de la Mestiza in the Midst of White Privilege; S.J.Hill Reading National Identities: The Radical Disruptions of GloriaAnzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera; B.Berila New Pathways to Understanding Self, Relationship, and Cognition: Anzaldúan (Re)visions for Developmental Psychology; K.Zaytoun 'Know Me Unbroken': Peeling Back the Silenced Rind of the Queer Mouth through the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa; M.W.Bundy What Do You Learn From What You See? Gloria Anzaldúa and Double Vision; E.Wiederhold CONOCIMIENTOS...EXPANDING THE VISION Champion of the Spirit: Gloria Anzaldúa's Critique of Rationalist Epistemology; A.Levine 'So Much Meat': Gloria Anzaldúa, the Mind/Body Split, and Exerting Control Over My Fat Body; E.Levy-Navarro Shifting the Shapes of Things to Come: The Presence of the Future in Gloria Anzaldúa; J.Caputi Activism Doing Mestizaje: When Epistemology Becomes Ethics; M.F.Torres EL MUNDO ZURDO...FORGING NEW ALLIANCES Spirit, Culture, Sex: The Elements of Creative Process in Gloria Anzaldúa's Poetry; L.Garber Radical Rhetoric: Anger,Activism, and Change; A.Espinosa-Aguilar This Is Personal: Re-Vi...

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Preface; C.Sandoval Introduction; A.Keating AUTOHISTORÍA Y AUTOHISTORÍA-TEORÍA...(RE)WRITING SELF, (RE)WRITING CULTURE Gloria y yo: Writing Silence and the Search for the Fronteriza Voice; Z.Y.Mendez The 1,000-Piece Nights of Gloria Anzaldúa: Autohistoría-teoría at Florida Atlantic University; C.S.Neile Reclaiming Pleasure: Reading the Body in Gloria Anzaldúa's People Should Not Die in June in South Texas ; M.Loving Blanchard Platicando con Gloria: An Interview; I.Lara 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; E.M.Vásquez From Within Germinative Stasis: Creating Active Subjectivity, Resistant Agency; M.Lugones 'This Thin Edge of Barbwire': Selves from the Land in the Middle; M.Ortega The House of Nepantla; I.Lara NOS/OTRAS...INTERSECTING SELVES/INTERSECTING OTHERS Discovering La Conciencia de la Mestiza in the Midst of White Privilege; S.J.Hill Reading National Identities: The Radical Disruptions of GloriaAnzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera; B.Berila New Pathways to Understanding Self, Relationship, and Cognition: Anzaldúan (Re)visions for Developmental Psychology; K.Zaytoun 'Know Me Unbroken': Peeling Back the Silenced Rind of the Queer Mouth through the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa; M.W.Bundy What Do You Learn From What You See? Gloria Anzaldúa and Double Vision; E.Wiederhold CONOCIMIENTOS...EXPANDING THE VISION Champion of the Spirit: Gloria Anzaldúa's Critique of Rationalist Epistemology; A.Levine 'So Much Meat': Gloria Anzaldúa, the Mind/Body Split, and Exerting Control Over My Fat Body; E.Levy-Navarro Shifting the Shapes of Things to Come: The Presence of the Future in Gloria Anzaldúa; J.Caputi Activism Doing Mestizaje: When Epistemology Becomes Ethics; M.F.Torres EL MUNDO ZURDO...FORGING NEW ALLIANCES Spirit, Culture, Sex: The Elements of Creative Process in Gloria Anzaldúa's Poetry; L.Garber Radical Rhetoric: Anger,Activism, and Change; A.Espinosa-Aguilar This Is Personal: Re-Visiting Gloria Anzaldúa From Within The Borderlands; L.Maracle Tierra Tremenda: The Earth's Agony and Ecstasy in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa; I.Hernández-Ávila Changing the World, Changing Ourselves? Anzaldúa's 'Spiritual Activism'; A.Keating

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'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

Product details

• Authors: A Keating, A. Keating, Analouise Keating
• Assisted by: Analouise Keating (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9781403967213
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6721-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Ethnic Studies, Literature, Fiction & related items, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Fiction, Ethnicity, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Fiction Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection