Light In The Dark/luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (l [Paperback]

Light in the Darkis 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.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a visionary writer whose work was recognized with many honors, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, a Lambda literary award, the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, and the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Her bookBorderlands / La fronterawas selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by theHungry Mind Reviewand theUtne Reader.

AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author ofWomen Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde,Teaching Transformation, andTransformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change; editor of Anzaldúa’sInterviews/Entrevistas,The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, andEntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, ofthis bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

"Gloria E. Anzaldua is one of the most generative and generous thinkers and storytellers in our times. In these rich auto-ethnographies she continues to search for what she calls the 'positive shadows' of personal and collective experience, spirit, and world. Anzaldua has the courage to write inside recesses and crevices to encounter what one does not necessarily want to know, but needs nonetheless to inhabit, tuned to change and possibility. In her unique speaking in entwined tongues, in Spanish and English, she is a multimodal guide in our l£Ç