The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook

ANALOUISE KEATING

“Presenting an invaluable and unique resource for established Anzaldúa scholars and anyone else wanting to learn more about Anzaldúa’s ideas, this book details how Anzaldúa’s most important ideas developed and changed over time while pointing readers to the best sources for understanding these ideas in greater depth. This is the most comprehensive study of Anzaldúa in existence.”—SUZANNE BOST, author of Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism

“AnaLouise Keating’s scope of knowledge about the Anzaldúa archive and its broader context is unparalleled. This book is a treasure trove of insights into Anzaldúa’s littleknown unpublished archival materials that deepen understanding of key Anzaldúan theories in relationship to each other as well as to her life and writing process. It is a tremendous offering of material for students, scholars, teachers, and practitioners of Anzaldúan thought that serves as an invitation to keep generating and co-creating conocimientos, as well as provides the methods to do so.”—IRENE LARA, coeditor of Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives

In The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Through archival research and close readings of Anzaldúa’s unpublished and published writings, Keating offers a biographicalintellectual sketch of Anzaldúa, investigates her writing process and theorymaking methods, and excavates her archival manuscripts. Keating focuses on the breadth of Anzaldúa’s theoretical oeuvre, including Anzaldúa’s lesserknown concepts of autohistoria y autohistoriateoría, nos/otras, geographies of selves, and El Mundo Zurdo. By investigating those dimensions of Anzaldúa’s theories, writings, and methods that have received less critical attention and by exploring the interconnections between these overlooked concepts and her betterknown theories, Keating opens additional areas of investigation into Anzaldúa’s work and models new ways to “do” Anzaldúan theory. This book also includes extensive definitions, genealogies, and explorations of eighteen key Anzaldúan theories as well as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of Anzaldúa’s unpublished manuscripts.

THE ANZALDÚAN THEORY HANDBOOK

ANALOUISE KEATING

October 304 pages paper, 978-1-4780-1892-6 $27.95/£20.99 cloth, 978-1-4780-1628-1 $104.95/£84.00

AnaLouise Keating is Professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender studies at Texas Woman’s University and the author of Transformation Now! Towards a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change and other books. She worked closely with Anzaldúa for over a decade, editing Interviews/Entrevistas and coediting (with Anzaldúa) this bridge we call home. She has also edited Anzaldúa’s books posthumously, including Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, also published by Duke University Press.