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 Books

Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado

"Did you come from the other side? You know, from Mexico?" So begins the friendship between Prietita and Joaquín, the young boy who, with his mother, has crossed the Rio Grande River to Texas in search of a new life. Prietita, a brave young Mexican American girl, defends Joaquín from the neighborhood kids who taunt him with shouts of "mojado" or "wetback." But what can she do to protect Joaquín and his mother from the Border Patrol as the van cruises slowly up the street toward their hiding place? Writer Gloria Anzaldúa is a major Mexican American literary voice. Illustrator Consuelo Méndez is a noted Latin American artist. Both grew up in South Texas. In this, their first collaboration, they have captured not only the hardship of daily life on the border, but also the beauty of the landscape and the dignity and generosity of spirit that the Mexican Americans and the Mexican immigrants share.

Children's Books

Children's Book 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

autobiography, bilingual Spanish/English

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Poetry

Aunt Lute Books

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

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

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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