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"The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country--a border culture.--Gloria AnzaldúaRooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA: THE NEW MESTIZA profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.

"Doll Seed is a collection of speculative short fiction. The stories span horror, fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism, but are always grounded in very real characters and finely rendered, distinctive communities. Thematically linked often by the lives of women and girls, especially women of color and their experiences of vulnerability and outsider status, these stories are playful and provocative. A Black family in the 1970s Bronx plays host to an alien child. An aspiring jewelry artist is haunted by a fast food icon. A doll finds herself in 1950s America playing a key role in the Civil Rights Movement. A meat grinder appears in a magical forest and chaos ensues"--

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. GULF DREAMS is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood. A powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented, dreamlike narrative--Teresa de Lauretis, professor of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. This amalgam of life history, creative nonfiction, psychoanalytic treatise and fictionalized memoirs is a welcome addition to queer literature--Gloria Anzaldua, author of BORDERLANDS.

This beautifully lyrical novel explores the reality of activism as more than just a handful of speeches given at protests, the costs to those who dedicate themselves to activist work, and the passion that drives us ever onward to a better, more just future.In the small town of Uz, Arkansas, Mandy Anderson wakes up on July 4th, 1963, her mother's birthday, to the sweltering Southern heat, a pounding headache, and the distinct thumping of her mother, Belle, kneading biscuit dough. In the raw heat, only made worse by Belle's baking, Mandy questions why the white woman her mother works for wouldn't want to give Belle the day off for her birthday. So begins Mandy's journey of questioning the structures that define her world, a path that carries her through tragedy, mystical encounters, and her own spiritual and familial legacy.

A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. Making Face, Making Soul includes over 70 works by poets, writers, artists, and activists such as Paula Gunn Allen, Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Barbara Christian, Chrystos, Sandra Cisneros, Michelle Cliff, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elena Creef, Audre Lorde, María Lugones, Jewelle Gomez, Joy Harjo, bell hooks, June Jordan, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Janice Mirikitani, Pat Mora, Cherríe Moraga, Pat Parker, Chela Sandoval, Barbara Smith, Mitsuye Yamada, and Alice Walker. Anzaldúa's unusual combination of scholarly research, folk tales, personal narrative, poetry and political manifesto, forms a powerful and cohesive whole. -- San Francisco Chronicle Review Anzaldúa is an accomplished writer, able to marshal passionate intensity in support of her attempt to do away with dualities. -- Journal of the Southwest She has chosen the most difficult task; that of mediating cultures without concession or dilution. -- Women's Review of Books Propelled by a strong indigenist current, Anzaldúa assumes a prophetic voice to create--by mythic, spiritual, mystic, intuitive and imaginative means--a new vision... -- The Americas Review Many of the best pieces...combine the theoretical essay with poetry and personal narration, reflecting a breadth of emotion that most people keep tightly concealed. This is the book's primary purpose, to give voice to thoughts and feelings which have been privatized and occluded. -- Publishers Weekly Anzaldúa brings a poetic style steeped in Chicano/Chicana history and Aztec myth to bear upon issues that are too often treated in dry, theoretical terms...subverts the white middle-class perspective of much mainstream feminism with analysis, testimony, story, and song. -- Utne Reader

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. MY JEWISH FACE & OTHER STORIES chronicles the coming of age and coming out of a daughter of the Jewish left. Wandering from Brooklyn to Harlem and Berkeley in the sixties, from the intense feminist politics of the seventies to the isolation and regathering of activism in the eighties, Kaye/Kantrowitz's women struggle for lesbian community, for proud Jewish identity and always for justice steeped in compassion. As humanly warm and funny as they are serious, these stories will reach with great hope and energy across generations and across cultures.

"A moving and powerful novel that explores how the forces of colonialism, misogyny and racism emerge in the lives of a family affected by this history. The language of the narrative is rich and evocative and the characters are both real and surreal in the intensity of imagination. An important book."--Susan Griffin "A novel worth reading."--"New Directions for Women"

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Border Studies. A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Border Studies. A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2012 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.

Poetry, Fiction, Cultural Writing. Ethnic Studies. In this new collection from WritersCorps, young urban poets and authors make the act of writing into an act of peace. The exploration ranges from the personal to the communal to the political. Funded by a Peace and the Written Word Award from the Isabel Allende Foundation, with a forward by Allende herself, CITY OF ONE is a testimony to a new engaged generation.

"A necessary, miraculous book--stories that celebrate and illuminate...this book is LIVE: vibrant, honest, humorous and often disturbing."--Carol Potter

Conversations with shamans, activists, teachers, artists and healers--a multicultural collection of interviews with women about the complexities of personal and social empowerment, including Deena Metzger, Papusa Molina, Fran Peavey, Barbara Smith, Winona LaDuke and many more.

Fiction. Native American Studies. Rendered in intertwining passages of prose and poetry, this novel begins with the story of Indiana Redpaint, whose father traded her for a rodeo entry fee, and follows the path of her daughter, Manna, whose life has been deeply marked by her mother's losses. Hitch-hiking her way to Gallup, NM, Manna finds wholeness and healing in unexpected people and places.

Drama. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. This collection of 20 plays creatively explores the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially as women of color in the United States experience it. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE looks at both individual and community issues, ranging from deeply personal reckonings with grief and anger to the broader institutional problems of homophobia, racism, sexism, poverty, and access to health care.

Fiction. Asia American Studies. Junglee, stemming from the Sanskrit root junglee, is used in India to label the wild, the uncivilized, the untamed. Used most commonly as condemnation or censure, it aims to break the spirit of women yearning for personal power. The female protagonists in these eleven stories recklessly pursue their sensual paths through a complex social world that seeks to shut them out. With wily irreverence and a willful rawness, Kamani pulls back the veil of convention, inch by inch, and draws the reader into the disquieting truth of women's lives, charting territory both intimate and bizarre.

Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism and History. Women's Studies. We can fight back and counter the multi- directional attacks on multicultural education in literary studies by creating responsible, sound, and cohesive pedagogy. Controversies come with the academic territory, but if we allow the conflicts to overwhelm the objectives of our teaching, we pave the way for multiculturalism to be merely a passing fad rather than a permanent foundation for liberal education. We need to get beyond internal us versus them rhetorics of hate to have any hope for our students to get beyond these mentalities in the real world beyond our classrooms.--from TEACHING AT THE CROSSROADS This book offers college and high school teachers a useful set of strategies for teaching literature by women of color. Providing a comprehensive framework that connects criticism to pedagogy, author Laurie Grobman provides a much- needed practical guide for teachers who want to introduce their students to multiple literary traditions in a culturally sensitive and theoretically informed manner. Highly accessible and designed for practical use, TEACHING AT THE CROSSROADS is an ideal book for teachers of American Literature, Women's Literature, Multicultural Literature, and World Literature. It is also ideal for English education courses that include training for diverse literatures by women. Includes sample class plans and discussion questions.

Three African-American writers, previously unpublished, rock the senses--from Africa to Thailand to Houston to Chicago. Rabie Harris writes about an old Jamaican woman put into a Texas home care facility by a guilt-ridden daughter. Gloria Yamato's poignant attempts to retrace the steps, in fiction, of those exact moments when African-Americans are forced into painful racialized consciousness. DeeAnne Davis uses the streets of Chicago as the setting for four chapters from her forthcoming novel.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Border Studies. This collection of essays, poetry, and artwork brings together scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa. The diverse voices represented in this collection are gathered from the 2007 national conference and 2009 international conference of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA). More than 30 scholars, activists, poets, and artists contributed to EL MUNDO ZURDO, whose release coincides with the SSGA's second annual international conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Written over the last decade of tumult and transformation in the People's Republic of China, these stories bring us authentic and startling portraits of women trapped in a society that straddles Confucian patriarchy, communist self-sacrifice and imported Western culture. "This is a strong collection of realistic fiction.... here are modern Chinese women's lives in all their diversity."--"Australian Bookseller and Publisher"

Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. By bringing together the voices of Native American women writers across time, regions, and tribes, this collection makes visible a dynamic tradition of women's wisdom and storytelling. From early legends to present-day fiction and poetry, this tradition emphasizes women's spiritual connection to the natural world and their contributions to tribal and familial community. Central to women's strength is the role of animal figures--Coyote, Owl, Beaver and Bear--who act as guides, helpers, and personal totems, appearing unexpectedly in the modern urban landscape as well as being a constant presence in nature.The work of more than forty authors appears in this volume, representing tribes and regions extending over most of the U.S. and parts of Canada. Among the authors included are Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan and Beth Brant, along with writers whose work appears here for the first time.THROUGH THE EYE OF THE DEER is far more than a wonderful book to read: it is a guidebook to life in the multiple world we really live in. It tells us of the many places the path of the sacred takes us, how to act when we get there, the dangers we will encounter, and how to get home.--Paula Gunn Allen

From the mesh of fantasy and certainty, both necessary to a good "cuento, " comes the Storyteller. Vampires and bars; barrios and teflon deserts; devils and dying; a spurned lover lying down with scorpions--the Storyteller threads her way through the unlikely, the impossible, coming to rest on the solid ground of her people. "[Forte-Escamilla's] people...are written with such complexity and fullness of dimension that they become unforgettable."--Tillie Olsen"

Short Fiction. Asian Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Lawrence A. Walker. In this collection of five short stories and one novella, set mostly in China during and after the Cultural Revolution, Geling Yan presents us with the unforgettable characters who have all, in one way or another, left home. Taking as her territory the disorienting space between home and away, Yan charts the unexpected and illuminating transformation of her characters hearts and minds as they find themselves thrust into unlikely intimacy with strangers. [Yan's] stories are very sensuous. One experiences and becomes immersed in her works instead of simply reading them. In my opinion, Geling Yan is the most exquisite fiction writer in the Chinese language today-- Joan Chen. Includes Celestial Bath, the basis for Joan Chen's film Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl. Geling was awarded a Golden Horse in 1998 for her screen adaption.

The most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century US women's writing ever produced.

Streetwise, funky, irreverent--Lara Stapleton's twelve short stories

This unique collection brings together an unprecedented range of beautifully crafted short stories by women that span a century and a half of African American literary tradition. Included are authors as varied as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara and Wanda Coleman.

Literary Nonfiction. Drama. RADICAL ACTS is an exciting and innovative compilation of essays and interviews about how feminist approaches to teaching theater challenge and engage students, teachers, and audiences alike. Contributors include theater practitioners working in a wide variety of settings (university, community, high school, and professional theaters) and with diverse social groups (disabled, working class, people of color), offering not only bracing critiques of mainstream theater institutions and practices, but inspiring and energizing accounts of how to create a more inclusive, reflexive, and liberating theater education. Includes essays by Cherrie Moraga and Ellen Margolis and interviews with Deb Margolin and Kate Bornstein.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Brody. HAGGADAH means the telling. The escape from Egypt is the defining legend, the central drama of the Jews. Every nation coalesces around such an epic; its people project themselves into the story, aspire to the virtues of its heroes, and through periodic retelling or dramatization, transmit their values to the next generation. The traditional HAGGADAH offers a set of instructions for conducting the Passover service, interspersed with readings from the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, legends, prayers, hymns and children's songs. Written by men and addressing men, the traditional text has not historically offered much space for women to see themselves as fully involved in or spoken to by the powerful drama of human freedom articulated by the HAGGADAH. In HAGGADAH: A CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM, Martha Shelley brings a new vision to the traditional text.

The short stories by contemporary Puerto Rican women in Reclaiming Medusa bring a much-needed perspective to the Latin American literary scene. Creating spaces in which the socially prescribed "woman's place" is questioned, problematized, and often subverted, these narratives reclaim women's lost power in ways that are subtle, complex, and sometimes startling. From within their colonial setting, the writers challenge racism, machismo and especially marianismo - that behavioral code which elevates women to a virgin's pedestal wherein they are immobilized and kept from making their own history.