Overview

Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldua weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issues-including the September 11 attacks, neocolonial practices in the art world, and coalitional politics. She valorizes subaltern forms and methods of knowing, being, and creating that have been marginalized by Western thought, and theorizes her writing process as a fully embodied artistic and political practice. Resituating Anzaldua's work within Continental philosophy and new materialism, Light in the Dark takes Anzalduan scholarship in new directions.

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Author:   Gloria Anzaldua ,  AnaLouise Keating
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780822359777

ISBN 10:   0822359774
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   02 October 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative  ix Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear  1 1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño  9 2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities  23 3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera  47 4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism  65 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process  95 6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts  117 Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161 Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline)  165 Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health  171 Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2  176 Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4  180 Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development  190 Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume  200 Notes  205 Glossary  241 References  247 Index  257

Reviews

Ready to move beyond identity politics? Beyond contemporary theories of globalization, de-coloniality, feminism, Marxism? Then take this U.S. Third Space/Fourth World Feminist Liberationist ride on AnzaldUan rivers of thought. They carry away outmoded debris. Tributary streams nourish decolonial visions. Shimmering re-cognitions arrive. Perceptual light shifts, wreaking havoc, unleashing floods of liberation philosophy. Dizzy? Take the book's medicine. It transforms refugees into citizen- chamanas, political co-creators of how we will be known. AnzaldUa wonders: Do you have the yearning, the energizing power of life, the courage to join us? --Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed

Ready to move beyond identity politics? Beyond contemporary theories of globalization, decoloniality, feminism, Marxism? Then take this U.S. Third Space/Fourth World Feminist Liberationist ride on Anzalduan rivers of thought. They carry away outmoded debris. Tributary streams nourish decolonial visions. Shimmering re-cognitions arrive. Perceptual light shifts, wreaking havoc, unleashing floods of liberation philosophy. Dizzy? Take the book s medicine. It transforms refugees into citizen-chamanas, political co-creators of how we will be known. Anzaldua wonders: Do you have the yearning, the energizing power of life, the courage to join us? --Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed

Author Information

Gloria E. AnzaldÚa (1942–2004) was a visionary writer whose work was recognized with many honors, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, a Lambda literary award, the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, and the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Her book Borderlands / La frontera was selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by the Hungry Mind Review and the Utne Reader. AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria AnzaldÚa, and Audre Lorde, Teaching Transformation, and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of AnzaldÚa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, The Gloria AnzaldÚa Reader, and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria AnzaldÚa; and co-editor, with AnzaldÚa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

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