Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a visionary writer whose work was recognized with many honors, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, a Lambda literary award, the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, and the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Her book Borderlands / La frontera was selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by the Hungry Mind Review and the Utne Reader.
AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, Teaching Transformation, and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

Editor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative  ix

Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear  1

1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño  9

2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities  23

3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera  47

4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism  65

5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process  95

6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts  117

Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161

Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline)  165

Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health  171

Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2  176

Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4  180

Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development  190

Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume  200

Notes  205

Glossary  241

References  247

Index  257