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Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)

Autor(a) de Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

12+ Works 4,141 Membros 30 Reviews 6 Favorited

About the Author

A native of the Southwest, Anzaldua is a Chicana lesbian feminist theorist, creative writer, editor, and activist. She has taught Chicano studies, feminist studies, and writing at a number of universities. In addition, she has conducted writing workshops around the world and has been a contributing mostrar mais editor for the feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom since 1984. She has also been active in the migrant farm workers movement. Anzaldua first came to critical attention with an anthology she coedited with Cherrie Moraga, another Chicana lesbian feminist theorist and writer. Titled This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), the anthology includes poetry, fiction, autobiographical writing, criticism, and theory by Chicana, African American, Asian American, and Native American women who advocate change in academia and the culture at large. Anzaldua is well known for her second book, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987). It combines prose and poetry, history, autobiography, and criticism in Spanish, English, as well as Tex-Mex and Nahautl. Its purpose is to interrogate and deconstruct sexual, psychological, and spiritual borderlands as well as the United States-Mexican border. In 1990 Many Faces/Making Souls was published. Anzaldua currently resides in Santa Cruz, California. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Gloria Anzaldúa at Smith College, 1990 [credit: K. Kendall]

Obras de Gloria Anzaldúa

Associated Works

Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989) — Contribuinte — 353 cópias
The Essential Feminist Reader (2007) — Contribuinte — 316 cópias
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (1993) — Contribuinte — 285 cópias
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1836) — Contribuinte — 179 cópias
Lesbian Love Stories (1991) — Contribuinte — 140 cópias
Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (1993) — Contribuinte — 128 cópias
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) — Contribuinte — 119 cópias
Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: an Anthology (1987) — Contribuinte — 104 cópias
Lesbian Love Stories, Volume 2 (1991) — Contribuinte — 86 cópias
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Contribuinte — 75 cópias
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuinte — 68 cópias
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010) — Contribuinte — 58 cópias
Floricanto Si!: U.S. Latina Poetry (1998) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 33: Wisdom (1987) — Editor; Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — Editor; Contribuinte — 20 cópias
In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States (1994) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 53: Old Lesbians/Dykes (1994) — Editor — 16 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 49: The Lesbian Body (1993) — Editor — 15 cópias
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 45: Lesbians & Class (1991) — Editor — 13 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 52: Allies (1994) — Editor — 13 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 50: The Ethics Issue... Not! (1993) — Editor — 13 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 48: Lesbian Resistance (1992) — Editor — 12 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 51: New Lesbian Writing (1993) — Editor — 11 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 46: Dyke Lives (1992) — Editor — 10 cópias
Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (2016) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 74: Latina Lesbians (2008) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 57: On Healing (1996) — Editor — 8 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 58: Open Issue (1998) — Editor — 8 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 78/79: Old Lesbians/Dykes ll (2009) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 42: Lesbian Voices (1990) — Editor — 8 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 27 (1984) — Editor; Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 39: On Disability (1989) — Editor — 7 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 31 (1987) — Editor — 7 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 62: Lesbian Writers on Writing and Reading (2004) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 40: On Friendship (1990) — Editor — 7 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 56: On Language (1995) — Editor — 6 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 19 (1982) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 38: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Relationships (1989) — Editor; Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 28 (1985) — Editor — 4 cópias
Sinister Wisdom 55 (1995) — Editor — 2 cópias

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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.… (mais)
 
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therc | Dec 19, 2023 |
For some reason I went into this thinking it was some sort of feminist manifesto, but it's an anthology of experiences of women of color, told through essays, poetry, biography and only sometimes political manifesto. It focuses particularly on experiences in feminism and those interpreted through feminist ideas but the focus is by no means exclusive. It has some limitations within its remit such as those mentioned in the introduction - eg limited to the US, almost exclusively talks about lesbian sexuality - but does an excellent job of covering a broad spectrum of experiences and voices. A lot of the writing is only a few pages so a lot of people and a lot of different perspectives get covered - even though I disagree with some of the politics etc it's inevitable and interesting and important to see it talked about. Reading about experiences from nearly 35 years ago and their hopes for change is inspiring and sometimes sad. Ultimately I have trouble faulting it, as long as you go in realising it's an anthology of experiences, all of which are emotional and interesting.… (mais)
 
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tombomp | outras 3 resenhas | Oct 31, 2023 |
My first takeaway from this story was the beautiful illustrations. They really helped tell the story. I also admired that the Spanish version was printed so that the story could be told and read in Spanish as well. This is a great story that shows that things aren’t always the way we are told that they are. It was admirable that Prietita overlooked dan-ger in order to help her mother.
 
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aachavez | outras 5 resenhas | Oct 11, 2022 |
I'm going to lose my Chicano, feminist status, but this book wasn't all that great.
 
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ennuiprayer | outras 7 resenhas | Jan 14, 2022 |

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