Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies Category Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to Women of Color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Her books include Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and The Gloria Anzald a Reader, a posthumously published collection of her work..
Gloria Anzald a (1942-2004) was a poet, metaphysical philosopher, and scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.
She is the author of many books, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010 and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pas por sus labios.
About the Author: A poet, playwright, and cultural activist, Cherr e Moraga is Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies and in the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Program at Stanford University.
Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to, and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of Women of Color in the United States and throughout the world.
The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda L pez, as well as current contributor biographies.
Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherr e Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to Women of Color oppression and liberation." Reissued here, nearly thirty-five years after its inception, the Fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzald a.
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies Category Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to Women of Color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century
