Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-264) and index.
Introduction : Shifting worlds, una entrada / AnaLouise Keating -- Pt. 1. Autohistoria y autohistoria-teoria--(re)writing self, (re)writing culture. Gloria y yo : writing silence and the search for the fronteriza voice / Zulma Y. Méndez -- 1,001-piece nights of Gloria Anzaldúa : autohistoria-teoría at Florida Atlantic University / Caren S. Neile -- Reclaiming pleasure : reading the body in "People should not die in June in South Texas" / Mary Loving Blanchard -- Daughter of Coatlicue : an interview with Gloria Anzaldúa / Irene Lara -- Living in the house of nepantla / Irene Reti -- Pt. 2. Nepantla--pathways to change. La Gloriosa Travesura de la Musa Que Cruza/The misbehaving glory(a) of the border-crossing muse : transgression in Anzaldúa's children's stories / Edith M. Vásquez -- Apertures of in-betweeness, of selves in the middle / Mariana Ortega -- From within germinative stasis : creating active subjectivity, resistant agency / María Lugones -- Negotiating paradoxical spaces : women, disabilities, and the experience of nepantla / Carrie McMaster -- Pt. 3. Nos/otras--intersecting selves/intersecting others. What do you learn from what you see? : Gloria Anzaldúa and double-vision in the teaching of writing / Eve Wiederhold -- Reading national identities : the radical disruptions of Borderlands/La Frontera / Beth Berila -- Teaching la Conciencia de la Mestiza in the midst of white privilege / Simona J. Hill -- "Know me unbroken": peeling back the silenced rind of the queer mouth / Mark W. Bundy -- New pathways toward understanding self-in-relation : Anzaldúan (re)visions for developmental psychology / Kelli Zaytown -- Pt. 4. Conocimientos--expanding the vision. "So much meat" : Gloria Anzaldúa, the mind/body split, and exerting control over my fat body / Elena Levy-Navarro -- Champion of the spirit : Anzaldúa's critique of rationalist epistemology / Amala Levine -- Shifting the shapes of things to come : the presence of the future in the philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa / Jane Caputi -- "Doing mestizaje" : when epistemology becomes ethics / Monica Torres -- Pt. 5. El mundo zurdo, the new tribalism--forging new alliances. This is personal : revisiting Gloria Anzaldúa from within the borderlands / Lee Maracle -- Spirit, culture, sex : elements of the creative process in Anzaldúa's poetry / Linda Garber -- Radical rhetoric : anger, activism, and change / Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar -- Tierra tremenda : the Earth's agony and ecstasy in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Shifting perspectives : spiritual activism, social transformation, and the politics of spirit / AnaLouise Keating