Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua - Archival Impulses

Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzaldúa's archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes.

List of contents

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Archives Chapter 1 Archival Impulses: Nepantla as MethodChapter 2 Voices from the Archive: Family Names, Official Documents, and Unofficial Ideologies in the Gloria Anzaldúa PapersChapter 3 Making Experience Public: Contextualizing Anzaldúa's Public Engagements and Redrawing the Boundaries of SpeechChapter 4 Nepantla Autopathograpy and the Politics of CrisisChapter 5 Visuality, Community, and Theories of the Flesh: Art in NepantlaChapter 6 Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally through a Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges*Chapter 7 Finding Anzaldúa: Memorials, Altares, and Her Many HomesConclusion: Archival Impulses
BibliographyAbout the Author

About the author

Diana Isabel Martínez is associate professor of communication at Pepperdine University.

Summary

Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzaldúa’s archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes.

Product details

• Authors: Martinez Diana Isabel Martinez, Diana Isabel Martinez, Diana Isabel Martínez
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781498598422
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9842-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literature: history & criticism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc