... identity formation both with cultural change and with shifts among multiple realities. She interweaves theory with practice to define writing as “gestures of the body;” offers an overview of her aesthetics; introduces her genre theories of autohistoria and autohistoria-teoría; expands previous definitions...

... This chapter represents the culmination of Anzaldúa’s intellectual-ontological-political journey; illustrates her theory of autohistoria-teoría and her aesthetics; and extends her previous work in feminist theory. Building on her earlier theories of “el mundo zurdo” (1970s), “the new mestiza...