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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Hemispheric Performativity

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Authors:
  1. Romana Radlwimmer

    1. University of Tübingen, Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  • Explores Anzaldúa’s contribution to the wave of feminist performativity in the Americas at the turn of the millennium
  • Builds on performance studies, as well as feminist and decolonial theory
  • Sheds new light on the materiality and intertextuality of Anzaldúa’s texts

Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Performative Concepts of the Americas

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 1-15

  3. Scissors and Glue: Material Writing Dynamics

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 17-26

  4. Bones and Skin: Anzaldúa’s Bodymindsouls

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 27-40

  5. Colors and Shapes: From Borderlands to Nepantla

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 41-60

  6. Three Museums: “Border Arte’s” Multiplications

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 61-72

  7. A Hemispheric Perspective on Anzaldúan Textualities

    • Romana Radlwimmer
    Pages 73-81

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 83-117
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About this book

This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzaldúa as a quintessential figure of feminist and decolonial theory-making in the Americas, this book argues that the Chicana writer articulated her notions on fluctuations through “performative concepts” which did not respect the borders of single texts or editions, but organically grew through them. The offered close readings of Anzaldúa’s published works, drafts, and archive material demonstrate the constant changes and intertwined phases of her literary and conceptual production.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Tübingen, Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Romana Radlwimmer

About the author

Romana Radlwimmer is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Before, She has held teaching and research positions in literary and cultural studies at the Universities of Salamanca, Lisbon, Augsburg, and Tübingen, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri, US Kansas City. She is the author of Wissen in Bewegung: LatinaKulturtheorie / Literaturtheorie / Epistemologie (2015), and the editor of the volume Transborder Matters: Circulaciones literarias y transformaciones culturales chicanas y mexicanas (2020). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in her fields of research.

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