13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Con profunda gratitud xi
4. Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century 1
5. PART I. The New Mestizas: “transitions and transformations”
6. 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa 19
7. 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30,000 Feet and 25 Years after Her “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers” 26
8. 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina 33
9. 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera 39
10. 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir 45
11. 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa 49
12. PART II. Exposing the Wounds: “You gave me permission to fly into the dark”
13. 7. Anzaldúa, Maestra sebastián josé colón-otero 65
14. 8. “May We Do Work That Matters”: Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders 68
15. 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding 74
16. 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer 80
17. 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness 85
18. 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure 91
19. PART III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change
20. 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy 103
21. 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit 111
22. 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist 118
23. 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community 127
24. 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds 136
25. 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives 142
26. PART IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders
27. 19. “To live in the borderlands means you” 155
28. 20. A modo de testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia 158
29. 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology 165
30. 22. For Gloria, Para Mí 172
31. 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands 175
32. 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies 182
33. PART V. Todas somos nos/otras: Toward a “politics of openness”
34. 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa 191
35. 26. Feels Like “Carving Bone”: (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought 197
36. 27. Shifting 204
37. 28. “Darkness, My Night”: The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Aesthetics of the Shadow 210
38. 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa’s Liberating Vision 218
39. 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon 226
40. 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa 230
41. Notes 231
42. Glossary 241
43. Works Cited 245
44. Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa 253
45. Contributors’ Biographies 257
46. Index 267