Review:
"AnaLouise Keating's compilation of Gloria Anzaldúa's 'early, ' 'middle, ' and 'later' writings provides a service to scholars; additionally, it is a joy to read Gloria's voice seeped in 'shaman aesthetics' that impel and move us to radical action. Undoubtedly, Anzaldúa's impact on various levels--including academic fields such as border studies, women's studies, and American studies--is long-lasting and profound."-- Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
"Gloria Anzaldúa was a courageous participant in late-twentieth-century decolonial movements. Throughout this reader she insists that academic knowledge must take into account the spirit-body-emotions-mind matrix. Such an accounting would transform academic knowledge, she believed, and make way for emancipatory modes of knowing and for brave, new subjects of history. The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader samples the bold lifework of a woman whose aims were to relieve suffering and to envision a decolonizing social affinity capable of uniting humanity in love."--Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed
"The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa's works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa's insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism."--Xiumei Pu, Feminist Formations
"Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa's long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa's interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader."--George Hartley "Southwestern American Literature "
"The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa's writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would've made Anzaldúa proud."--Liliana Valenzuela "Texas Observer "
"This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, 'autohistoria, ' short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume."--WATERwheel
About the Author:
Gloria Anzaldua (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 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 Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde; editor of Anzaldua's Interviews/Entrevistas and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua; and co-editor, with Anzaldua, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. 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 Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde; editor of Anzaldua's Interviews/Entrevistas and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua; and co-editor, with Anzaldua, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.
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