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Article: The best-loved bones: spirit and history in Anzaldua's "Entering into the Serpent".(Gloria Anzaldua)(Critical essay)
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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IN THE FOREWORD to the second edition of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua exhorts her readers to make the world "luminosa y activa," luminous and active, through their own activity--and yet--she continues, "to act is not enough. Many of us are learning to sit perfectly still, to sense the presence of Soul and commune with Her." Anzaldua connects the stillness that leads to communion with the realization that victimization can be overcome, and old stereotypes of the passive, powerless woman, "the defeated images," can be left behind. Given her assertion of soul as a ground of feminist action, one would expect this aspect of ...