A collection of essays using Gloria Anzaldúa’s archival works to further explore and reassess the meaning of her legacy.In the 1980s, Gloria Anzaldúa’s pioneering Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back created new and durable trajectories for feminist, queer, Latinx, and postcolonial thought. Still, much of her writing was never published. Drawing on Anzaldúa’s impressive archive—manuscript drafts, personal memorabilia, corresponde...

A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa.Finalist for the 2026 PROSE Award in the Literature CategoryFinalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBTQ+ Fiction categoryBest known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), G...

Reimagining humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attentionHow might foregrounding the writings of colonized peoples transform the ways we work in the humanities? In an era dominated by loud political rhetoric, Suzanne Bost advocates for quieter modes of scholarship: intellectual humility rather than ego, collaboration and conversation rather than singular argumentation, continual reflection and revision rather than defensiveness, and a willingness to ...

Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environm...

In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Her study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America. Bost challenges the popular media's notion that a new millennium has ushered in a radical transformatio...

Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration.The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses:Regional, cultural and sexual identit...

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collabor...

Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.

El Mundo Zurdo 4 is 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.Contributors include: Trevor Boffone, Jody A. Briones, Deborah Cole, Rufina Cortez, Cindy Cruz, T. Jackie Cuevas, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Yvette G. Flores, Magda García, Michael Lee Gardin, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Rob Johnson, AnaLouise Keating, Ta...

Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations of power, and the complicated geographies of d...

El Mundo Zurdo 7 is 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 2018 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.Contributors include: Sonya Alemán, Mariana Alessandri, Ewa Antoszek, Lobat Asadi, Paola Bacchetta, Camille Beck, Cordelia E. Barrera, Catalina Bartlett, Samantha Ceballos, Casie C. Cobos, Amanda E. Cuellar, Qwo-Li Driskill, Ricardo L. Franco...

El Mundo Zurdo 3 gathers together 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.Contributors include: Norma Alarcón, Stephanie Alvarez, Nancy "Rusty" Barceló. Cordelia E. Barrera. Stephanie Brock, Janie Covarrubias, Betsy Dahms, Lauren Espinoza, Kandance Creel Falcón, Martha Gonzalez, María del Socorro Gutiérrez Magallanes...