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A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Gloria E. Anzaldúa was also a prolific fiction writer. Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-stories, follows the precocious Prieta from her childhood in South Texas to college and beyond as she tries to find her way in the world. Imbued with supernatural powers, Prieta traverses time, changes form, explores her desires, and defies convention. Started in the 1970s and revised up until Anzaldúa's death in 2004, Prieta Is Dreaming comes as a revelation, affirming Anzaldúa's place at the forefront of contemporary feminist, queer, and border theory, while transforming what we think about both her writing and ourselves. In these nineteen intertwined stories, we find some of Anzaldúa's most adventurous, inspired ideas about gender, sexuality, and the very nature of existence—as well as a character, la Prieta, as bold and memorable as the book itself.
Contents
Editors' Introduction
Preface: "La Prieta is Dreaming"
Part One: Familia
1. The Second Heart/ El segundo corazón
2. De reojo/Out of the Corner of the Eye
3. En el hocico del mar/In the Mouth of the Sea
4. People Should Not Die in June in South Texas
Part Two: Patlache
5. Como quelite
6. Mita' y mita'
7. Movidas of a Baby Butch
8. Eating the fruit / Comiendo del árbol como Xochiquetzal
9. El Paisano is a Bird of Good Omen
Part Three: University Life
10. In the Shadow of la Chingada [or Smoking Mirror]
11. The Crack Between the Worlds
12. Becoming luciérnaga/Swallowing fireflies/tragando luciérnagas
13. Noche de la lagartija/Night of the Lizard
Part Four: Becoming Chamana
14. She Ate Horses
15. Reading LP
16. Like a Crow on the Wing/Como urraca en vuelo
17. Ghost Trap/Trampa de espanto
18. The Were-jaguar in the Woods of the Dream
19. Canción de cascabel/Song of the Rattlesnake
Appendix 1: Instrucciones a la autora
Appendix 2: A History of the Stories
Appendix 3: Anzaldúa's Writing Process
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the Author
