Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.
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A writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ZAMI and THE BLACK UNICORN. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fif...
A writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ZAMI and THE BLACK UNICORN. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992.
Our various histories of mestizaje, and the contradictions inherent in the term and its mixture, gives us the ability and flexibility—the tools necessary—to realize great changes in personal and collective identity. Like corn, a primary staple of Mexicans and indigenas, mestizos have been, and continue to be, subject to genetic mixtures and extensive hybridity. But we find our sense of self threatened by our shadow aspects and by the very liminal spaces(las nepantlas) we inhabit, aspects and spaces with the potential to push us into new avenues of growth. Like other new Raza narratives, mine are replete with contradictions, riddled with cracks. Though these holes allow light/insights to enter, they also cast shadows. Acknowledging and exploring estas sombras is more difficult when I myself... (查看原文)
We need nepantleras whose strength lies in our ability to mediate and move between identities and positions. Necesitamos nepantleras to inspire us to cross over racial and other borders. To become nepantleras, we must choose to occupy intermediary spaces between worlds, choose to move between worlds like the ancient chamanas who choose to build bridges between worlds, choose to speak from the cracks between the worlds, from las rendijas(rents). We must choose to see through the holes in reality, choose to perceive something from multiple angles. The act of seeing the holes in our cultural conditioning can help us to separate out from overidentifying with personal and cultural identities transmitted by both our own groups and the dominant culture, to shed their toxic values and ways of life... (查看原文)
4 | Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity Nos / Otras (Us / Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism Reimagining identities unchangeable body - changeable beliefs 身份标签的局限性… We need fresh terms and open-ended tags that portray us in ...
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