This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldua's theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different methodologies and approaches-testimonio, performative writing, and interpretive, rhetorical, and critical methodologies-the contributors provide original research on contexts including healing and pain, woundedness, identity, Chicana and black feminisms, and experiences in academia.
Part I: Healing the Wounds: (Re)imagining Borderlands Theory Chapter 1: "Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzalduan Perspective," Nivea Castaneda Chapter 2: "Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing," Manuel Alejandro Perez "Make America Great Again," Robert Gutierrez-Perez Chapter 3: "Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness," Carlos Tarin "Dolores," Masha Sukovic Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and Healing Chapter 4: "Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach," Sarah Amira de la Garza Chapter 5: "A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldua's Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela's Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness," Luis Manuel Andrade Chapter 6: "I take something from both worlds": An Anzalduan Analysis of Mexican-American Women's Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity," Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez Part III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of Conocimiento Chapter 7: "Communicating Nepantla: An Anzalduan Theory of Identity," Sarah De Los Santos Upton Chapter 8: "Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento," Edmundo M. Aguilar Chapter 9: "Remembering Gloria Anzaldua Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges," Diana I. Bowen Part IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and Hybridity Chapter 10: "Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity," Stephanie L. Gomez "La Duena de la Casa," Masha Sukovic Chapter 11: "A Tolerance for Ambiguity or the American Dream: Using Anzaldua to Disrupt and Reclaim Latina Lives from Multicultural Feminism," Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Marie Calafell Part V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building "Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems," Shantel Martinez Chapter 12: "Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoria," Tara L. Conley Chapter 13: "Rasquache Cyborgs and Borderlands Aesthetics in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer," Alexandrina Agloro Chapter 14: "Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, & Topographies of Anger," Rachel Alicia Griffin Part VI: Anzalduan Approaches to Critical (Communication) Pedagogy "I Get It from My Mother," Robert Gutierrez-Perez Chapter 15: "Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldua in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment," Xamuel Banales Chapter 16: "Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal," Luis Gabriel Sanchez Rose Chapter 17: "A Crack to Speak Out From: Performing Coalitional Politics Through Dialogue, Listening, and Reflexivity," Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Bedilia Ramirez Chapter 18: "Becoming a Bridge in/through Critical Communication Scholarship: Meditations on the Affective Afterlife of Cultural Normativities," Gust A. Yep
