Gloria Anzaldúa

Gloria Anzaldúa (1990)

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (born September 26, 1942 in Harlingen , Texas , † May 15, 2004 Santa Cruz , California ) was an American author, intellectual and activist. Her work focuses on feminist theory as well as chicana and queer studies . Her best-known work Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza is loosely autobiographical. The author reflects in the form of poetry and prose about social and cultural marginalization as Chicana, woman and feminist as well as about her own growing up in the Mexican-Texan border area.

Life

Gloria Anzaldúa was born on September 26, 1942, the eldest child of Urbano Anzaldúa and Amalia Gracía Anzaldúa in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. The family later moved to Hargill, Texas.

Anzaldúa was the first in her family to study. She studied English, arts and education at the University of Texas-Pan American and received her Bachelor of Arts in 1969. In 1972, she earned a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin the subjects of English and Education .

When Gloria Anzaldúa died of complications from diabetes in May 2004 at the age of 61 , her doctoral thesis in literary studies was nearing completion. The University of California, Santa Cruz awarded her a posthumous doctorate in 2005.

Awards

Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1986) - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award (1991)
Lesbian Rights Award (1991)
Sappho Award of Distinction (1992)
National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award (1991)
American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award (Bode-Pearson Prize - 2001).

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Major works

with Cherríe Moraga (Ed.): This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. (1981) 4th edition. Duke University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4384-5438-2 .
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza . (1987), 4th edition. Aunt Lute Books , 2012, ISBN 978-1-879960-85-5 .
Making Face, Making Soul / Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. Aunt Lute Books, 1990, ISBN 1-879960-10-9 .
Interviews / Entrevistas. edited by AnaLouise Keating . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-92504-5 .
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-93682-9 .
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader. edited by AnaLouise Keating. Duke University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8223-4564-0 .
Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. edited by AnaLouise Keating. Duke University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8223-6009-4 .

Bilingual children's books

Prietita Has a Friend / Prietita Tiene un Amigo. 1991.
Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del Otro Lado. 1993, ISBN 0-89239-130-8 .
Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y La Llorona. 1996, ISBN 0-89239-167-7 .

literature

Anna Brígido-Corachán: Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momaday 's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera. In: Begoña Simal (Ed.): Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2011, pp. 109-132.
Michaela Díaz-Sánchez: "Yemaya Blew That Wire Fence Down": Invoking African Spiritualities in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza and the Mural Art of Juana Alicia. In: Solimar Otero, Toyin Falola (Ed.): Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina / o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 2013, pp. 153-186.
María Lugones: On Complex Communication. In: Hypatia. Vol. 21, No. 3, 2006, pp. 75-85. doi: 10.1111 / j.1527-2001.2006.tb01114.x
Monica Perales: On Borderlands / La Frontera: Gloria Anzaldúa and Twenty-Five Years of Research on Gender in the Borderlands. In: Journal of Women's History. Vol. 25, No. 4, 2013, pp. 163-173.
Charles M. Tatum: Spotlight Biography: Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004). In: Charles M. Tatum (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras. Greenwood 2004, ISBN 1-4408-0099-5 , pp. 596 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Charles M. Tatum: Spotlight Biography: Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004). In: Charles M. Tatum (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras. 2004, p. 597.
↑ UCSC brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30. UC Santa Cruz, accessed January 21, 2019 .
^ The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation. In: BookWeb. American Booksellers Association, 2013, archived from the original March 13, 2013 ; accessed on September 25, 2013 : " 1986 [...] A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua "
^ Book Awards - Lambda Literary Awards. www.readersread.com, accessed September 26, 2017 .
^ ^A ^b Frances Ann Day: Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works . Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut 2003, ISBN 978-0-313-32394-2 , Gloria Anzaldúa, pp. 80 ( google.com ).
^ ASA Awards and Prizes - ASA. www.theasa.net, accessed September 26, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Anzaldúa, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Anzaldúa, Gloria Evangelina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author, intellectual, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harlingen (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 2004
Place of death	Santa Cruz (California)

[1] Charles M. Tatum: Spotlight Biography: Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004). In: Charles M. Tatum (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras. 2004, p. 597.

[2] UCSC brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30. UC Santa Cruz, accessed January 21, 2019 .

[3] The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation. In: BookWeb. American Booksellers Association, 2013, archived from the original March 13, 2013 ; accessed on September 25, 2013 : " 1986 [...] A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua "

[4] Book Awards - Lambda Literary Awards. www.readersread.com, accessed September 26, 2017 .

[Day-5] A ^b Frances Ann Day: Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works . Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut 2003, ISBN 978-0-313-32394-2 , Gloria Anzaldúa, pp. 80 ( google.com ).

[6] ASA Awards and Prizes - ASA. www.theasa.net, accessed September 26, 2017 .