Reading: Gloria Anzaldúa

Presenter Information

Gloria Anzaldúa

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

24-3-1993 3:00 PM

End Date

24-3-1993 4:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 24, 1993, as part of the 24th Annual UND Writers Conference: “La Literatura: Contemporary Latino/Latina Writing,” Gloria Anzaldúa reads a selection of poetry and fiction. Anzaldúa reads Lorna Dee Cervantes's “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races” and her own “To Live in the Borderlands Means You,” “Cihuatlyotl, Woman Alone,” and the short stories “Puddles” and “Ghost Trap. Anzaldúa also responds to audience questions about her ethnic heritage, marginalized peoples, her field of theory and merging of theoretical and creative work, and her experience as a lesbian and a woman of color in California.

Introduced by Donna Oltmanns, Coordinator of the Women's Center.

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Reading: Gloria Anzaldúa

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 24, 1993, as part of the 24th Annual UND Writers Conference: “La Literatura: Contemporary Latino/Latina Writing,” Gloria Anzaldúa reads a selection of poetry and fiction. Anzaldúa reads Lorna Dee Cervantes's “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races” and her own “To Live in the Borderlands Means You,” “Cihuatlyotl, Woman Alone,” and the short stories “Puddles” and “Ghost Trap. Anzaldúa also responds to audience questions about her ethnic heritage, marginalized peoples, her field of theory and merging of theoretical and creative work, and her experience as a lesbian and a woman of color in California.

Introduced by Donna Oltmanns, Coordinator of the Women's Center.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1993/day2/3