The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (Latin America Otherwise)

Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children’s books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women’s studies.
This reader—which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career—demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa’s published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa’s life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa’s key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.

Literature & Fiction

Gloria Anzaldúa

United States

Duke University Press

Tending eight-foot-tall houseplants in a New York City high-rise apartment. Starting an herb farm in the Ozarks. A cornfield in Los Angeles. The politics of snails. A safe sex way to garden. An Australian bush garden. The first woman arborist in California. These and many other stories, poems, essays and photos are gathered in this anthology by lesbian gardeners. We invite you to celebrate with us the diversity of garden variety dykes who make this planet a better place to live.

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening (English and Spanish Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Irene Reti

Valerie Jean Chase

Becky Birtha

Irena Klepfisz

Judith Barrington

Gardening & Landscape Design

Herbooks

This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherríe Moraga

State University of New York Press

Second edition of Gloria Anzaldúa's major work, with a new critical introduction by Chicano Studies scholar and new reflections by Anzaldúa.

La frontera/Borderlands

Aunt Lute Books

Cultural Writing. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twentieth-anniversary edition features new commentaries from prominent activists, artists, and teachers on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldua's visionary work.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Essays & Correspondence

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 5th edition

StudySync Texas Grade 10 Reading & Writing Companion - English 2 Volume 2, 9781950533299

McGraw-Hill Education, Inc.

StudySync Texas Grade 10 Reading & Writing Companion - English 2 Volume 1, 9781970126419

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