Bridging
How Gloria Anzaldua's Life and Work Transformed Our Own
Published on 1. April 2011
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-0-292-72555-3 (ISBN)
Description
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria AnzaldUa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of AnzaldUa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and inviting readers to engage with these intimate, heartfelt contributions.
Bridging is divided into five sections: The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"; Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly in the dark"; Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change; Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders; and "Todas somos nos/otras": Toward a "politics of openness." Contributors, who include Norma Elia CantU, Elisa Facio, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, AIda Hurtado, Andrea Lunsford, Denise Segura, Gloria Steinem, and Mohammad Tamdgidi, represent a broad range of generations, professions, academic disciplines, and national backgrounds. Critically engaging with AnzaldUa's theories and building on her work, they use virtual diaries, transformational theory, poetry, empirical research, autobiographical narrative, and other genres to creatively explore and boldly enact future directions for AnzaldUan studies.
A book whose form and content reflect AnzaldUa's diverse audience, Bridging perpetuates AnzaldUa's spirit through groundbreaking praxis and visionary insights into culture, gender, sexuality, religion, aesthetics, and politics. This is a collection whose span is as broad and dazzling as AnzaldUa herself.
Bridging is divided into five sections: The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"; Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly in the dark"; Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change; Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders; and "Todas somos nos/otras": Toward a "politics of openness." Contributors, who include Norma Elia CantU, Elisa Facio, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, AIda Hurtado, Andrea Lunsford, Denise Segura, Gloria Steinem, and Mohammad Tamdgidi, represent a broad range of generations, professions, academic disciplines, and national backgrounds. Critically engaging with AnzaldUa's theories and building on her work, they use virtual diaries, transformational theory, poetry, empirical research, autobiographical narrative, and other genres to creatively explore and boldly enact future directions for AnzaldUan studies.
A book whose form and content reflect AnzaldUa's diverse audience, Bridging perpetuates AnzaldUa's spirit through groundbreaking praxis and visionary insights into culture, gender, sexuality, religion, aesthetics, and politics. This is a collection whose span is as broad and dazzling as AnzaldUa herself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-292-72555-3 (9780292725553)
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Persons
AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University, is an influential scholar in the development of AnzaldUan studies.
Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez is Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Center for Mexican American Studies, and affiliated with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez is Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Center for Mexican American Studies, and affiliated with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Content
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Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: AnzaldUan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez)
I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"
1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversaciOn con Gloria AnzaldUa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo)
2. A Letter to Gloria AnzaldUa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello)
3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (AnahI Viladrich)
4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia)
5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia CantU)
6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. AnzaldUa (AIda Hurtado)
II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark"
7. AnzaldUa, Maestra (SebastiAn JosE ColOn-Otero)
8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria AnzaldUa across Borders (Claire Joysmith)
9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. CEspedes)
10. Gloria AnzaldUa and the Meaning of Queer (HEctor DomInguez-Ruvalcaba)
11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang)
12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez)
III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the AnzaldUan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath)
14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria AnzaldUa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey)
15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs)
16. AcercAndose a Gloria AnzaldUa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria)
17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating)
IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega)
20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta)
21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria AnzaldUa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce)
22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving)
23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura)
24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria AnzaldUa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford)
V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness"
25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria AnzaldUa (Suzanne Bost)
26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through AnzaldUan Thought (Kavitha Koshy)
27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun)
28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria AnzaldUa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (MarIa DeGuzmAn)
29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with AnzaldUa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi)
30. For Gloria AnzaldUa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem)
31. She Eagle: For Gloria AnzaldUa (Becky Thompson)
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Published Writings by Gloria E. AnzaldUa
Contributors' Biographies
Index
Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: AnzaldUan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez)
I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"
1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversaciOn con Gloria AnzaldUa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo)
2. A Letter to Gloria AnzaldUa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello)
3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (AnahI Viladrich)
4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia)
5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia CantU)
6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. AnzaldUa (AIda Hurtado)
II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark"
7. AnzaldUa, Maestra (SebastiAn JosE ColOn-Otero)
8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria AnzaldUa across Borders (Claire Joysmith)
9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. CEspedes)
10. Gloria AnzaldUa and the Meaning of Queer (HEctor DomInguez-Ruvalcaba)
11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang)
12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria GonzAlez-LOpez)
III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the AnzaldUan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath)
14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria AnzaldUa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey)
15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs)
16. AcercAndose a Gloria AnzaldUa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria)
17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating)
IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega)
20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta)
21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria AnzaldUa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce)
22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving)
23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura)
24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria AnzaldUa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford)
V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness"
25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria AnzaldUa (Suzanne Bost)
26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through AnzaldUan Thought (Kavitha Koshy)
27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun)
28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria AnzaldUa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (MarIa DeGuzmAn)
29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with AnzaldUa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi)
30. For Gloria AnzaldUa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem)
31. She Eagle: For Gloria AnzaldUa (Becky Thompson)
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Published Writings by Gloria E. AnzaldUa
Contributors' Biographies
Index