A collection of essays using Gloria Anzaldua's archival works to further explore and reassess the meaning of her legacy. In the 1980s, Gloria Anzaldua's pioneering Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back created new and durable trajectories for feminist, queer, Latinx, and postcolonial thought. Still, much of her writing was never published. Drawing on Anzaldua's impressive archive-manuscript drafts, personal memorabilia, correspondence, and drawings held at the Benson Collection at the University of Texas, Austin-this volume explores what we are still learning from a pathbreaking scholar more than twenty years after her death. Changing Our Minds with Gloria Anzaldua gathers essays from eleven writers working in diverse fields, including philosophy, literature, geography, performance studies, and visual arts. All have been powerfully influenced by Anzaldua, and after examining her archives, all came to know her work anew. Each chapter relates discoveries among the unpublished materials, illuminating Anzaldua's celebrated texts and raising novel questions. A meditation, as well, on archivalism itself, Changing Our Minds reckons with the power of dusty papers to motivate new generations of readers outside the geographies and academic departments in which Anzaldua has long been a fixture.
Suzanne Bost is a professor and chair of the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. AnaLouise Keating is a professor of multicultural women's and gender studies at Texas Woman's University. Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes is a professor and chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota. Kelli D. Zaytoun is professor emeritus of English language and literatures at Wright State University.
List of Illustrations Foreword. Shapeshifting into the Future with Anzaldua (Norma E. Cantu) Introduction. Changing Our Minds (Suzanne Bost, AnaLouise Keating, Amelia de la Luz Montes, and Kelli Zaytoun) Chapter 1. S(h)elves and Seashells: Transforming Writing with the Gloria E. Anzaldua Archive (Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla) Chapter 2. Animate Archives: Gloria Anzaldua and Nick Cave (Suzanne Bost) Chapter 3. The Gloria Anzaldua Archive as Ritual and Resistance (Kelli D. Zaytoun) Chapter 4. "Letting Go": Glucose Logs, Upending Narratives in Anzaldua's Diabetes Journey (Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes) Chapter 5. Dislocating Consensual Realities of Harm: Shifting toward Homing Justice with Spiritual Activism (Jess Martinez (they/them/ellx)) Chapter 6. "Susto in the City": Latinx New York in Anzaldua, and Anzaldua in Nueva York's Borderlands (Laura Lomas) Chapter 7. Crossing Borders with Racha: Nagualismo and el Cenote in Andrea Munoz Martinez's Art (Sara A. Ramirez) Chapter 8. Gloria Anzaldua and Reading as Political Praxis (Andrea J. Pitts) Chapter 9. Changing Ideas, Graphies, and Knowledge/Conocimiento Production Methods: Dialogues with Gloria Anzaldua Since Brazil(s) (Patricia M. Matos Albuquerque and Isabelle Caroline Damiao Chagas) Chapter 10. "Writing Is My Way of Making Alliances": Asserting Blackness, Challenging Mestizaje, and the Future of Anzalduan Studies (Rebeca L. Hey-Colon) Chapter 11. From Coatlicue to Coyolxauhqui: Risking the Personal (Yet Again) with Gloria Anzaldua (AnaLouise Keating) Conclusions Acknowledgments References Contributors Index
