Women reading women writing : self-invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde
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Women reading women writing : self-invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde
Temple University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index
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Description
As self-identified lesbians of colour, Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde negotiate diverse, sometimes conflicting, sets of personal, political, and professional worlds. Drawing on recent developments in feminist studies and queer theory, AnaLouise Keating examines the ways in which these writers, in both their creative and critical work, engage in self-analysis, cultural critique, and the construction of alternative myths and representations of women. Allen, Anzaldua, and Lorde move within, between, and among the specialized worlds of academia and publishing; the private spaces of families and friends; the politicized communities of Native Americans, Chicanas/os, and African Americans; and the overlapping, yet distinct worlds of feminist, lesbian/gay, and U.S. women of colour. They translate their lives into words and enact new forms of identity that blur the boundaries between apparently distinct peoples. Keating explores how, by revising precolonial mythic and cultural traditions, they invent new ways of thinking that destabilize the networks of classification. AnaLouise Keating teaches English and Women's Studies at Eastern New Mexico University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Threshold Identities 2. Mythic Ways of Knowing? 3. Transformational Identity Politics: Seeing "Through the Eyes of the Other" 4. Back to the Mother? Paula Gunn Allen's Origin Myths 5. Writing the Body/Writing the Soul: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestizaje Ecriture 6. Inscribing "Black," Become...Afrekete: Audre Lorde's Interactional Self-Naming 7. Crossing Over: Toward a Womanist Genealogy Notes Works Cited Index
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An examination of the work of three "out" lesbians of color and the ways they negotiate their private, public, and political worlds
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Threshold Identities 2. Mythic Ways of Knowing? 3. Transformational Identity Politics: Seeing "Through the Eyes of the Other" 4. Back to the Mother? Paula Gunn Allen's Origin Myths 5. Writing the Body/Writing the Soul: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestizaje Ecriture 6. Inscribing "Black," Become...Afrekete: Audre Lorde's Interactional Self-Naming 7. Crossing Over: Toward a Womanist Genealogy Notes Works Cited Index
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