El Mundo Zurdo 8: Selected Works from the 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa

"This volume gathers selected academic and creative works from the 2019 meeting of the Society and recognizes the importance and sustained impact of Anzaldâua's work. The productions for these edited conference proceedings have been organized into distinct categories that align with the conference tracks in El Mundo Zurdo: each work speaks to the one next to it, emphasizing the manner in which Anzaldâuan thought travels across communities-from the personal to the political, from the academic to the activist, from the creative to the spiritual. Part I, Anzaldâua in and out of Academia: Theory & Pedagogy, focuses on sustaining Anzaldâua's legacy and teaching her work both in academic and public settings. Part II. Telling Lives: Testimonios, Autohistoria, Oral History, and Autoethnography brings together authors who are participating in the legacy of storytelling and theorizing from personal experience, history, creative expression, and social observation in the tradition of Anzaldâua. Part III, Philosophy, Theory, Culture, explores the interconnectedness of Anzaldâua's contributions to these three fields of study. Part IV, Anzaldâua and Healing: Art, Music, and Poetry, as the final section, brings together the creative works and cultural production born out of Anzaldâua's work. The poetry and artwork included in this section focus on the border reality of the artists and the way they connect their work to Anzaldâua"--