Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own

Published by University of Texas Press 2011

Bridging

How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own

Edited by: AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López

https://doi.org/10.7560/725553

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About this book

The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa'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 Cantú, Elisa Facio, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Aída 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 Anzaldúa'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 Anzaldúan studies.

A book whose form and content reflect Anzaldúa's diverse audience, Bridging perpetuates Anzaldúa'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 Anzaldúa herself.

Author / Editor information

AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University, is an influential scholar in the development of Anzaldúan studies.

Gloria González-López 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Con profunda gratitud Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century Analouise Keating and Gloria González-López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. The New Mestizas: “transitions and transformations”
1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa Lorena M. P. Gajardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30,000 Feet and 25 Years after Her “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers” Ariel Robello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina Anahí Viladrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera Jessica Heredia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir Norma Elia Cantú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa Aída Hurtado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
PART II. Exposing the Wounds: “You gave me permission to fly into the dark”
7. Anzaldúa, Maestra sebastián josé colón-otero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
8. “May We Do Work That Matters”: Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders Claire Joysmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding Karina L. Céspedes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness Lei Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure Gloria González-López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
PART III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy Michelle Kleisath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit Betsy Eudey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist Glenn Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community Paola Zaccaria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds Shelley Fisher Fishkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives Analouise Keating Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
PART IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
19. “To live in the borderlands means you” Mariana Ortega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
20. A modo de testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia Esther Cuesta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology Jorge Capetillo-Ponce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
22. For Gloria, Para Mí Mary Catherine Loving Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies Andrea A. Lunsford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
PART V. Todas somos nos/otras: Toward a “politics of openness”
25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa Suzanne Bost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
26. Feels Like “Carving Bone”: (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought Kavitha Koshy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
27. Shifting Kelli Zaytoun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
28. “Darkness, My Night”: The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Aesthetics of the Shadow María Deguzmán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa’s Liberating Vision Mohammad H. Tamdgidi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon Gloria Steinem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa Becky Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Contributors’ Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 292

eBook

Published: May 12, 2011
ISBN: 9780292734715