Light in the dark = Luz en lo oscuro : rewriting identity, spirituality, reality

Anzaldúa, Gloria (author.). Keating, AnaLouise, 1961- (editor.).

Summary: "Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa 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 coalition politics ..."--Cover.

Item details

ISBN: 9780822359777
ISBN: 0822359774
ISBN: 9780822360094
ISBN: 0822360098
ISBN: 9780822375036
ISBN: 0822375036
ISBN: 9780822375036
Physical Description: print
xxxvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Editor's introduction: Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, decolonizing reality : Anzaldúa's twenty-first-century imperative / AnaLouise Keating -- Preface: Gestures of the body = Escribiendo para idear. -- 1. Let us be the healing of the wound : the Coyolxauhqui imperative = La sombra y el sueño -- 2. Flights of the imagination : rereading/rewriting realities -- 3. Border arte : nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- 4. Geographies of selves-- reimagining identity : nos/otras (us/other), las nepantleras, and the new tribalism -- 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui together : a creative process -- 6. Now let us shift ... conocimiento ... inner work, public acts. -- Agradecimientos = Acknowledgments. -- Appendix 1. Lloronas dissertation material : proposal, table of contents, and chapter outline -- Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's health -- Appendix 3. Unfinished sections and additional notes from chapter 2 -- Appendix 4. Alternative opening, chapter 4 -- Appendix 5. Historical notes on the chapters' development-- Appendix 6. Invitation and call for papers, testimonios volume. -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Language Note:	Text in English and Spanish.