 | Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality 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 . |
