List of works by Gloria E. Anzaldúa explained

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a prolific Chicana writer of prose, fiction, and poetry. After moving from her native Texas to California in 1977, she exclusively focused on her writing, publishing dozens of pieces of writing before her death. She left behind several manuscripts in progress when she died.

Among her most popular pieces of writing are This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) and Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987; especially a section entitled "La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a Mestiza Consciousness"). She wrote variously about feminism, the role of women of color in feminism, self-reflection, borderlands (particularly the space around the Mexico–United States border), Indigenous mythology and culture, and identity and contradiction. She developed the framework of mestiza consciousness, contributed to the field of queer theory, and valued intersectionality over single-identity movements. She is remembered as an especially influential writer in late nineteenth century cultural studies.

Books

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Yearscope=col Publisher scope=col class=unsortable Notesscope=col class=unsortable
scope=row This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color 1981
scope=row Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 1987 A text that exists within several genres
scope=row 1990 Edited collection
scope=row Interviews/Entrellistas 2000
scope=row 2002
scope=row 2015 Published after her death
scope=row La Serpiente Que Se Come Su Cola: The Death and Rebirth Rites-of-Passage of a Chicana Lesbian Never published
scope =row La Prieta Never published, intended to be a "novel/collection of stories"

Articles and essays

Title! scope=col
Year scope=col Publicationscope=col class=unsortable Notes scope=col class=unsortable
scope=row "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers" 1981 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Written in the epistolary format
scope=row 1981 Anzaldúa began writing this essay in 1979 and finished it in 1981. An autohistoria
scope=row "En Rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras" 1987 Sinister Wisdom
scope=row "Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar, or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas" 1990 Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances A longer version of a 1988 speech
scope=row "Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman" 1990 Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry
scope=row "To(o) Queer the Writer – Loca, escritora y chicana" 1991 Inversions: Writing by Dykes, Queers, and Lesbians An edited transcript
scope=row "Border Arte: Nepantla, el Lugar de la Frontera" 1993 La Frontera/The Border: Art about the Mexico/United States Border Experience Discussion of Coyolxauhqui, autohistoria, nepantla, and the visual arts
scope=row "Foreword" 1996 Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit Discusses spirituality. Worked on a longer version until her death
scope=row "Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative – la sombra y el sueño" 2005 One Wound for Another / Una Herida por otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace (11 de septiembre de 2001 – 11 de marzo de 2002) Final essay published before her death, about post-September 11th policy and nepantla
scope=row "Born Under the Sign of the Flower: Los jotos in Ancient Mexico and Modern Aztlán" Unpublished essay, written in the 1980s about the HIV/AIDS pandemic
scope=row "S.I.C.: Spiritual Identity Crisis"Unpublished essay, written before 1999 about her diabetes diagnosis
scope=row "Spiritual Activism: Making Altares, Making Connections"Unpublished essay, written before 1999 about the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Fiction

Title! scope=col
Yearscope=col Publicationscope=col class=unsortable Notes scope=col class=unsortable
scope=row 1982/1983 Conditions and Cuentos: Stories by Latinas Began writing in 1974 as "La Boda" and conceptualized in the early 1980s as a sequence in a novel. Prietita story
scope=row "People Should Not Die in June in South Texas" 1985/1993 My Story's On: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives and Growing Up Latino: Reflections on Life in the United States Prietita story
scope=row 1989 Third Woman Press
scope=row "Life Line" 1989 Lesbian Love Stories, vol. 1
scope=row "She Ate Horses" 1990 Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures
scope=row "Ms. Right, My True Love, My Soul Mate" 1991 Lesbian Love Stories, vol. 2
scope=row "Ghost Trap / Trampa de espanto" 1992 New Chicana/Chicano Writing First written in 1990. Included in La Prieta. Humorous story
scope=row "Puddles" 1992 Published in 1992, revised until at least 1998. Some of the revisions were substantial, including changing the point of view and the title (to "Velada de una lagartija")
scope=row "Swallowing Fireflies / Tragando Luciérnagas" 2003 Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories

All of her children's books, and many of her short stories for children, feature Prieta/Prietita as the main character. Most of the Prietita stories remain unpublished, as do many stories about childhood or written for children. She wrote for stories for Mexican-American children to challenge the feelings of inferiority they learned in school as a project of "decolonizing, disindoctrinating ourselves from the oppressive messages we have been given".

Title!scope=col
Yearscope=col Publisher scope=col class=unsortable Notes scope=col class=unsortable
scope=row Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del Otro Lado 1993 Children's Book Press Illustrated, bilingual
scope=row Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y la Llorona 1995 Inverts the traditional reading of la Llorona as fearful

Poems

Anzaldúa included poems in her other writing, including her book Borderlands / La Frontera. Scholar Ariana Vigil characterizes the poetry of Anzaldúa as a site of "necessary social critique", drawing upon her experiences that are "linked to a raced, working-class condition and subject".

scope=col Title scope=col Yearscope=col Publicationscope=col class=unsortable Notes scope=col class=unsortable
scope=row "Tihueque" 1976 Tejidos Her first publication. Nahuatl languages: Tihueque is Nahuatl for "now let us go".
scope=row "To Delia, Who Failed on Principles"2009 Written in 1974, published posthumously
scope=row "Reincarnation"
scope=row "I Want to be Shocked Shitless"
scope=row Written around 1975, performed often in the 1980s; published posthumously
scope=row Written in the 1970s, published posthumously
scope=row Written in 1977. Spanish; Castilian: Surdo is usually spelled Spanish; Castilian: zurdo, but Anzaldúa altered the spelling; published posthumously
scope=row "Enemy of the State"Included in the 1985 version of Borderlands / La Frontera but not the published version; published posthumously
scope=row
scope=row "Encountering the Medusa"
scope=row Written between 1984 and 1990, published posthumously
scope=row Written around 1990, published posthumously. Autobiographical poem
scope=row "Yemayá"
scope=row "How to"Written and revised until 1997, published posthumously
scope=row "Healing Wounds"Written and revised until 2002, published posthumously
scope=row "Like a spider in her web"
scope=row Written and revised until 2003, published posthumously
scope=row "Llorona Coyolxauhqui"Written and revised until 2003, published posthumously. Discusses la Llorona, Coyolxauhqui, nepantla, and el cenote
scope=row "When I write I hover"Prose poem, published posthumously

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