Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)
Autore di Terre di confineLa frontera
Sull'Autore
A native of the Southwest, Anzaldua is a Chicana lesbian feminist theorist, creative writer, editor, and activist. She has taught Chicano studies, feminist studies, and writing at a number of universities. In addition, she has conducted writing workshops around the world and has been a contributing mostra altro editor for the feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom since 1984. She has also been active in the migrant farm workers movement. Anzaldua first came to critical attention with an anthology she coedited with Cherrie Moraga, another Chicana lesbian feminist theorist and writer. Titled This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), the anthology includes poetry, fiction, autobiographical writing, criticism, and theory by Chicana, African American, Asian American, and Native American women who advocate change in academia and the culture at large. Anzaldua is well known for her second book, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987). It combines prose and poetry, history, autobiography, and criticism in Spanish, English, as well as Tex-Mex and Nahautl. Its purpose is to interrogate and deconstruct sexual, psychological, and spiritual borderlands as well as the United States-Mexican border. In 1990 Many Faces/Making Souls was published. Anzaldua currently resides in Santa Cruz, California. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Gloria Anzaldúa at Smith College, 1990 [credit: K. Kendall]
Opere di Gloria Anzaldúa
Making Face, Making Soul = Haciendo caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (1990) — A cura di — 341 copie
“El sonavabitche” 1 copia
Anzaldúa, Gloria Archive 1 copia
Opere correlate
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Collaboratore — 514 copie
Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore (1997) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 105 copie
Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry (1995) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 20 copie
Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities (1988) — A cura di — 13 copie
Sinister Wisdom 38: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Relationships (1989) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 5 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Nome legale
- Anzaldúa, Gloria Evangelina
- Data di nascita
- 1942-09-26
- Data di morte
- 2004-05-15
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Valle de la Paz Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Harlingen, Texas, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- complications of diabetes
- Luogo di residenza
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Ph.D|2005 - awarded posthumously)
University of Texas, Austin (MA|1972 - Comparative Literature)
Pan American University (BA|1968) - Attività lavorative
- feminist writer
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award
Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1986)
Lesbian Rights Award (1991)
Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award (1991)
Sappho Award of Distinction (1992)
National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award (1991) (mostra tutto 7)
Bode-Pearson Prize (2001)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 52
- Utenti
- 4,141
- Popolarità
- #6,080
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 56
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 6