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One of the foremost feminist thinkers and activists of our time, and one of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Gloria E. Anzald.a here recounts her life, explains many aspects of her thought, and explores postcolonial theory. A key document for those engaged in postcoloniality, feminist theory or the study of queer identities.

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""The book brings together difficult-to-access materials that provide considerable insight into an unusual life."" -- Publishers Weekly ""For the prolific lesbian Chicana author, interviews are another kind of oral writing that provides an immediacy, an openness, and a self-exposure greater that that of any spontaneity in her meticulously revised publications. These dialogues and conversations give Anzaldua's perspectives on her work, the multiple and overlapping realities of her life, her beliefs about fluid sexual identities and desires, and her theories on convergence--a way of writing that combines the sexual, the mental, the emotional, and the psychic-supernatural in a written stream-of-consciousness."" -- Booklist ""This impressive collection of interviews offers us a sustained look at Gloria Anzaldua's insistence on theorizing the personal and on infusing the political with the poetic--words which have shaped feminist theories and practices over the last two decades."" -- Angela Davis ""All of [Anzaldua's] writing draws upon intensely personal sources, which makes interviews with her so enlightening."" -- San Antonio Express-News ""This memoir-like collection will appeal especially to the author's longtime fans."" -- Curve ""Gloria Anzaldua's boundless generosity of spirit glows throughout these interviews. I especially enjoy her ideas about space/time and the nature of reality (or the many realities...)."" -- Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Almanacof the Dead

The book brings together difficult-to-access materials that provide considerable insight into an unusual life.. <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> For the prolific lesbian Chicana author, interviews are another kind of oral writing that provides an immediacy, an openness, and a self-exposure greater that that of any spontaneity in her meticulously revised publications. These dialogues and conversations give Anzaldua's perspectives on her work, the multiple and overlapping realities of her life, her beliefs about fluid sexual identities and desires, and her theories on convergence--a way of writing that combines the sexual, the mental, the emotional, and the psychic-supernatural in a written stream-of-consciousness.. <br>- Booklist <br> This impressive collection of interviews offers us a sustained look at Gloria Anzaldua's insistence on theorizing the personal and on infusing the political with the poetic--words which have shaped feminist theories and practices over the last two decades.. <br>-Angela Davis <br> All of [Anzaldua's] writing draws upon intensely personal sources, which makes interviews with her so enlightening. <br>- San Antonio Express-News <br> This memoir-like collection will appeal especially to the author's longtime fans. <br>- Curve <br>

Author Information

Gloria E. Anzaldúa is the author of Borderlands/LaFrontera: The New Mestiza, Friends from the OtherSide/Amigos del otro lado, and Prietita and the GhostWoman/ Prietita y la Llorona, editor of Making Face,Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and CriticalPerspectives by Women of Color, and co-editor of ThisBridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women ofColor. Anzaldúa has played a pivotal role in redefining US feminisms, cultural studies, Chicano/a issues, US American literature, ethnic studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. AnaLouise Keating is Associate Professor of English at Aquinas College. In addition to Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula GunnAllen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, she co-edited Perspectives: Gender Studies and has published articles on critical ""race"" theory, queer theory, Latina writers, African American women writers, and pedagogy.

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