Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro : Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

Editor\'s Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa\'s Twenty-First-Century Imperative  ix

Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear  1

1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño  9

2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities  23

3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera  47

4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism  65

5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process  95

6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts  117

Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161

Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline)  165

Appendix 2. Anzaldúa\'s Health  171

Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2  176

Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4  180

Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters\' Development  190

Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume  200

Notes  205

Glossary  241

References  247

Index  257