The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldua's writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldua was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would've made Anzaldua proud. - Liliana Valenzuela, Texas Observer
Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldua's long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldua Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldua's
interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldua, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader. - George Hartley, Southwestern American Literature
This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, 'autohistoria,' short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume. - WATERwheel
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldua's works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldua's insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism. - Xiumei Pu, Feminist Formations
AnaLouise Keating's compilation of Gloria Anzaldua's 'early,' 'middle,' and 'later' writings provides a service to scholars; additionally, it is a joy to read Gloria's voice seeped in 'shaman aesthetics' that impel and move us to radical action. Undoubtedly, Anzaldua's impact on various levels-including academic fields such as border studies, women's studies, and American studies-is long-lasting and profound.- Norma E. Cantu, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua
Gloria Anzaldua was a courageous participant in late-twentieth-century decolonial movements. Throughout this reader she insists that academic knowledge must take into account the spirit-body-emotions-mind matrix. Such an accounting would transform academic knowledge, she believed, and make way for emancipatory modes of knowing and for brave, new subjects of history. The Gloria Anzaldua Reader samples the bold lifework of a woman whose aims were to relieve suffering and to envision a decolonizing social affinity capable of uniting humanity in love.-Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed
Keating collects poems, essays, prose and commentaries by Anzaldua, revealing the public figure the pathbreaking queer Chicana writer as well as a sensual and deeply spiritual iconoclast. Anzaldua's voice emerges defiant, mercenary, passionate and unapologetic. . . . . The book is punctuated by Anzaldua's simple drawings, exercises in deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. Her writings capturing her relentless fight to avoid being stereotyped and to empower women of color within and without academia are rich and various, exploring everything from gender, memory and oppression to sex in the afterlife. * Publishers Weekly *
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldua's works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldua's insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism. -- Xiumei Pu * Feminist Formations *
Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldua's long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldua Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldua's interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldua, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader. -- George Hartley * Southwestern American Literature *
The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldua's writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldua was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would've made Anzaldua proud. -- Liliana Valenzuela * Texas Observer *
This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, 'autohistoria,' short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume. * WATER *
