This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzaldúa as a quintessential figure of feminist and decolonial theory-making in the Americas, this book argues that the Chicana writer articulated her notions on fluctuations through “performative concepts” which did not respect the borders of single texts or editions, but organically grew through them. The offered close readings of Anzaldúa’s published works, drafts, and archive material demonstrate the constant changes and intertwined phases of her literary and conceptual production.
Author(s): Romana Radlwimmer
Series: Literatures of the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 121
City: Cham
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Performative Concepts of the Americas
Introducing a Theory in Motion
Hemispheric Performativity
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Scissors and Glue: Material Writing Dynamics
On Hands and Knees
Stories and Drafts
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Bones and Skin: Anzaldúa’s Bodymindsouls
Hormones and Oranges
A Continual Doing
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Colors and Shapes: From Borderlands to Nepantla
Hot Pink Houses, Red Pepper Fields
Canvas and Clay
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Three Museums: “Border Arte’s” Multiplications
A Living Text
Three Museums
Bibliography
Chapter 6: A Hemispheric Perspective on Anzaldúan Textualities
Intertexts of the Americas
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
