Event overview
An exhibition on the artist Gloria Anzald煤a featuring a selection from the Anzald煤a papers at the Benson Latin American collection, the University Of Texas at Austin
The Women鈥檚 Art Library, Special Collections and Archives, 缅北强奸幼女 is pleased to present an exhibition on the artist Gloria Anzald煤a featuring a selection from the Anzald煤a papers at the Benson Latin American collection, the University Of Texas at Austin
Opening Reception
Short presentation by the facilitators Nina Hoechtl and Rian Lozano
7-9pm
Friday 14 September
Special Collections and Archives
The Library
Rutherford Building
A self-described 鈥淐hicana, tejana, working-class, dyke-feminist poet, writer-theorist,鈥� Gloria Anzald煤a also saw herself as a nepantlera, one who navigates a liminal space between worlds, identities, and ways of knowing. Just as fluid movement between English, Spanish and Nahuatl was central to Anzald煤a鈥檚 teaching and writing, so too was the interplay between words and images an essential element of her self-expression. The words and images presented for the first time in England come from transparency drawings, notes, and diagrams that Anzald煤a presented to her audiences at workshops and lecture 鈥済igs鈥� across the United States of America. Some are undated, but many were created during one of the most active periods of her teaching career, in the mid-1990s.
These vivid documents provide an intimate view into Anzald煤a鈥檚 creative process and demonstrate the centrality of imagination and visuality to the author鈥檚 theories of knowledge and consciousness. Anzald煤a explores borders and builds bridges that allow contact, friction, and mixture with the unexpected, the foreign, the queer, the 鈥渙ther,鈥� which is, in many instances, the reverberation of the self and the collective memory.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Sep 2018 |
7:00pm - 9:00pm Opening Reception |
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