The Benson Latin American Collection

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1942-2004



Descriptive Summary

CreatorAnzaldúa, Gloria
TitleGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, Part 1
Dates: 1942-2004
AbstractThe personal papers of Chicana theorist and feminist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, author of Borderlands/La Frontera include correspondence, written works, audio tape interviews, reviews, clippings, photographs, posters, artwork, and collected materials.
Accession No.2005-31
OCLC Record No.
Extent108 linear feet
LanguageEnglish and Spanish
RepositoryBenson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Sketch

Internationally recognized cultural theorist, creative writer, and independent scholar Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born on September 26, 1942 in Raymondville, Texas, to Urbano and Amalia Anzaldúa. She worked in a wide variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, anthologies, and children’s books. One of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa played a major role in redefining Chicana/o, queer, feminist, and female identities, and in developing inclusionary movements for social justice. Her theories of mestizaje, the borderlands, and the new mestiza, as well as her code-switching, have had an impact far beyond the field of Chicano/a studies. Her insistence on community and coalition-building united feminist concerns with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, health, and spirituality. Anzaldúa also played a formative role in the development of Queer Theory.

The eldest child of four, Anzaldúa was raised in South Texas. She spent her earliest years on Jesus María, a ranch settlement in the Rio Grande Valley. During this time, her family lived on the various ranches on Jesus María, and one year traveled to West Texas, where they worked as migrant farmers. When she was eleven, the family moved to Hargill, Texas in order to provide the children with greater educational opportunities. Anzaldúa’s intimate knowledge of the South Texas landscape, gained through working on various farms and ranches in order to help with expenses, coupled with her awareness from an early age of the Valley’s legacy of racial discrimination and Tejano land dispossession, influenced her work profoundly. An avid reader as a child, Gloria began experimenting with writing through journal entries, poetry, and short fiction while still in high school. She graduated from Edinburg High School in 1962, and enrolled in Texas Woman’s University that fall. Unable to pay tuition beyond the first year, she withdrew, worked for two years, and began attending Pan-American University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1969.

Anzaldúa taught pre-school, special education classes, and high school for several years in the Valley, while also attending summer graduate classes at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her master’s degree in English and Education in 1972. She then served as a liaison between migrant camps and school officials in Indiana, and it was during her time there that she began her writing in earnest. In 1974, Anzaldúa decided to return to the University of Texas at Austin to continue her graduate studies at the doctoral level in literature. During these years, Anzaldúa also worked with a variety of political groups, including MECHA, farm worker protests, and feminist organizations and consciousness-raising groups. While at UTA, Anzaldúa taught a course called “La Mujer Chicana” and realized the profound lack of published materials by and about U.S. women of color. This awareness was the first step in her decision to edit the anthology which would later become This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Resolving to dedicate herself and her life to her writing, she moved to San Francisco, where she juggled a number of temporary jobs in order to devote time to her writing. Two years later, after experiencing discrimination at a writing workshop, Anzaldúa formulated the call for papers for her groundbreaking anthology of women-of-color writing. She had also recently met Cherríe Moraga at a Feminist Writer's Guild meeting held at Old Wives Tales Bookstore; a few months later, she asked Moraga to co-edit the anthology.

The 1980s were a prolific period for Anzaldúa’s poetry and fiction, as she moved from San Francisco to New York and attended various writers’ retreats and workshops. She also began to travel around the country doing her “gigs,” or speaking engagements, as recognition of her work mounted after the release of This Bridge Called My Back. Much of her writing between 1984 to 1986, including a small portion of her extensive poetry and a parts of a manuscript entitled "La serpiente que se come su cola," ultimately found its way into Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, which was published in 1987.

In 1988 Anzaldúa was accepted into the Ph.D. program in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. While teaching a women’s studies class at UCSC, she assembled a course reader that became the basis for the anthology Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, published in 1990. In 1991, she began work on her dissertation. Tentatively titled “Lloronas--Women Who Wail: (Self)Representation and the Production of Writing, Knowledge, and Identity,” this dissertation focused on consciousness, writing, knowledge production, identity, resistance and agency, especially as these issues impact Chicana/mestizas and other “post-colonial cultural” women. However, the demands of her professional life as a writer and speaker, together with the diagnosis of Type I diabetes in the early 1990s, compelled her to put aside her graduate work for the time being. During the mid 1990s, she published two children’s books, Friends from the Other Side/Amigos del Otro Lado and Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona, and drafted several others. Throughout her life, Anzaldúa gave approximately 100 interviews. Noting that interviews were, like writing, an important part of communicating, she published in 2000 with AnaLouise Keating the collection Interviews/Entrevistas, which included selected interviews from 1982 to 1999. In 2001, Anzaldúa returned to her doctoral work. Rather than continue with the dissertation she had drafted in the early 1990s, she entirely revised her dissertation project, incorporating previously published essays and writing several new chapters. Again collaborating with Keating, she published the highly anticipated anthology, this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, in 2002.

Throughout her successful career as a writer, theorist, and activist, Anzaldúa continued to teach, which she loved to do. She taught formally through Vermont College’s Adult Degree Program in the 1980s, several writer-in-residence and visiting professor appointments, and through Women’s Voices, a creative writing workshop at UC Santa Cruz. She also taught and collaborated more informally, organizing writing groups for women of color. Her book on the writing process was one of many projects she was working on when she passed away.

Anzaldúa received many honors and awards during her lifetime, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for This Bridge Called My Back, the Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, the Lesbian Rights Award, the Sappho Award of Distinction, and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Borderlands was named one of the 38 best books of 1987 by the Library Journal, and was selected by the Utne Reader for inclusion in their Loose Canon, a list of 150 works that “broaden, deepen, or define the experience of being alive.” The Utne Reader also featured her as one of their Utne Visionaries of 1996. She was awarded her Ph.D. in literature, posthumously, by the University of California Santa Cruz.

Gloria Anzaldúa died on 15 May 2004 at her home in Santa Cruz, California, due to diabetes-related complications.

Works Referenced:

  • Anzaldua, Gloria. Interview with Karin Ikas. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 1987. By Gloria Anzaldua. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999. 227-246.
  • - - -. Interviews/Entrevistas. Ed. AnaLouise Keating. New York: Routledge, 2000.
  • - - -. Introduction. Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation, 1990.. xv-xxviii.
  • Keating, AnaLouise. “Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa.” ColorLines (Fall 2004): 42.
  • Keating, AnaLouise, and Randy Conner. “Rest in Peace, Gloria.” Making Face, Making Soul: a Chicana feminist homepage. 16 Oct. 2004. 30 Aug. 2006. http://gloria.chicanas.com/keatingobit.html.

Photograph by Annie F. Valva.


Scope and Contents Note

Personal and biographical materials, correspondence, written works, research materials, photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts document the life and career of Chicana scholar, writer, teacher, and activist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa. The papers are arranged following as closely as possible Anzaldúa’s original organization, in nine series: Personal and Biographical, Correspondence, Written Works, Gigs and Teaching, Phone Logs, Calendars and Address Books, Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, Collected Materials, Oversized Materials and Artifacts, and the Gloria Anzaldúa Library. Researchers should note that some materials are temporarily restricted at the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust.

Series one,    Personal and Biographical, is a small series that contains Anzaldúa’s birth certificate, diplomas and awards, high school and college yearbooks, materials relating to her interest in spirituality and the occult, information relating to diabetes, and a collection of her obituaries, memorials, and tributes. Anzaldúa's personal journals also make up part of this series, but at in keeping with Anzaldúa's wishes they are closed to researchers for a period of 20 years.

Series two,    Correspondence, contains letters written to and by Anzaldúa. The files are arranged primarily alphabetically by individual or organization name, though there is a subseries of correspondence arranged by subject, such as her writing and reprint correspondence, or letters relating to projects such as the Mundo Zurdo reading series or the Third World Women Speakers List. Included among the many correspondents are Norma Alarcon, Ruth Behar, Beth Brant, Norma Cantú, Chrystos, Jamie Lee Evans, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, AnaLouise Keating, Cherrie Moraga, Elana Nachman/Dykewomon, Emma Perez, Adrienne Rich, Chela Sandoval, and Luisah Teish, and organizations the National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies, the Smithsonian Institution, the journal Sinister Wisdom, PEN American Center, and the National Women’s Studies Association. Other noted names present in the collection are Rudolfo Anaya, Joan Baez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and the White House.

Series three,    Written Works, includes manuscripts, production materials, and correspondence relating to Anzaldúa’s poetry, fiction, books, essays, and articles, both published and unpublished. The works are arranged alphabetically by title. Anzaldúa's larger published works--Borderlands/La Frontera, Interviews/Entrevistas, Making Face, Making Soul, This Bridge Called My Back, and this bridge we call home--are listed first. Other works, both published and unpublished, are then listed alphabetically in Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Editorial categories. Anzaldúa's dissertation and other graduate student work is next, followed by Writing Notes, Speeches, Interviews, and Works (by others) About Anzaldúa. The section of interviews, an especially rich part of the collection, contains transcripts and other related documentation for some of the many interviews Anzaldúa participate in during her lifetime; copies of interview recordings can be found below in Series 6: Photographs and Audiovisual Materials. At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust some manuscripts in this series are temporarily closed to researchers until publication plans can be finalized.

Series four,    Gigs and Teaching, contains correspondence, publicity, administrative materials, and some written works related to her speaking engagements. This series is arranged chronologically. This series also includes material related to Anzaldúa's teaching engagements.

Series five,    Phone logs, Calendars, and Address Books, is arranged chronologically within each format of material.

Series six,    Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, contains many professional portraits of Anzaldúa, grade- and highschool photographs, as well as black and white and color snapshots, and various photos of other individuals, meetings, or related subjects. Audiotapes include recording of interviews, lectures and readings, tarot and other psychic readings, and other recordings collected by Anzaldúa. A small collection of video recordings consist primarily of Anzaldúa's readings and lectures. This series also includes sketches by Anzaldúa, and some collected artwork by others. The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

Series seven,    Collected Materials, consists of articles and clippings collected by Anzaldúa over the course of her professional career. These are arranged in four sub-series: Subject Files, Reference Files, Course packets, and Clippings. Many are scholarly journal articles that appear to have been used for her graduate studies, and other articles, clipped out of popular magazines and newspapers, are of more general interest. Anzaldúa’s interest in immigration and border issues, feminist studies, human rights, the environment, queer studies, and the occult is reflected in this collection. The Subject Files in particular include a number of original notes written by Anzaldúa. This series also documents the cultural, social, and political climate of the 1980s and 1990s, with clippings on California’s Proposition 187, the controversy over the Columbus quincentennial, the Hopwood vs. Texas anti-affirmative action case, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Also included in this series are manuscripts sent to Anzaldúa by friends and professional acquaintances for her feedback. Manuscripts of note include Sandra Cisneros’s "Loose Woman," Ruth Behar’s "Translated Woman," and Norma Alarcon’s essay “Tradditora, Traddutora.” The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

Series eight,    Oversized Materials and Artifacts, contains primarily large format photographs, gig posters, and other posters and artwork, as well as Anzaldúa's collection of t-shirts. The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

The Benson Collection is also composing a complete bibliographic list of Anzaldúa's personal library of more than 5000 books. This is an ongoing project, and interested researchers should contact the rare books reading room for this information. The list will be located on Part 2 of this guide.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Some materials in the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers are restricted for a period of time due to concerns about privacy and confidentiality, publication rights, and as requested by Ms. Anzaldúa.

Use Restrictions

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Literary Trust retains full copyright and publication control over all materials written or produced by Gloria Anzaldúa. Some of the material in this collection may not be photocopied, and permission of the Trust is required before publication, in whole or in part, of any materials written or produced by Ms. Anzaldúa.


Index Terms

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers are classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries' catalog:
Anzaldúa, Gloria--Archives
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Mexican American authors--Sources
Mexican Amerian lesbians--Intellectual life--Sources
Lesbian feminism--United States--Sources
Queer Theory
Texas, South--Ethnic relations
Mexican-American Border Region--In literature
Other Authors
Keating, AnaLouise, 1961-

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.


Box and Folder Inventory

 

Personal and Biographical, 1942-2004

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1Biographical Information:
1Baptism and Birth certificates (corrected), 1942-1943 [1972]
2Anzaldúa genealogy, 2000
3Biographical Sketches, N.d.
Includes short biographies by Anzaldúa
4C.V.s and Resumes, N.d.
5Publications Lists, N.d.
6Passport and California driver's license, 1987-1988
7ID cards, miscellaneous, 1973-1976
8Journal Pages, 1968, 1971
9Newspaper clipping, c.1963
10Memorials and tributes, 2004
11Obituaries, 2004
12Hargill Junior High School certificate, 1958
13Edinburg High School yearbook, 1962
14Edinburg High School diploma, 1962
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21Pan American College yearbook, 1968
2Pan American College diploma, tassel and graduation program, 1968
3Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School yearbook, 1971
4University of Texas, "Degrees Awarded," 1972
5College transcripts, 1968-1988
6California Community Colleges, instructor credential, 1988
Certificates and Awards:
7Various Certificates and Awards, 1993, 2003
8Lesbian Small Press Book Award for Making Face, Making Soul, 1990
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31American Studies Association award nomination and acceptance speech, 2001
2American Studies Association Award, 2001
3University of California, Santa Cruz, Rainbow Ceremony certificate (post-humous), June 2004
Financial Information:
4Finances, miscellaneous, 1985-2004
5Finances, "books sold," notes, 2000, N.d.
Health and Diet Information:
6Alternative medicine/healing information
7Diabetes tracking logs
8Diabetes general information
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41Diabetes general information
2Diabetes information
3Diabetes nutritional information
4Documents from doctors
5Drug-related information
6Handwritten notes
7Nutritional information
8Psychic material (herbs, gems, dreams, etc.)
9Vitamin and health-related information
10Santa Cruz area restaurants
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51Cookbook
2Handwritten recipes
3Recipes, Amalia Anzaldúa, 23 May 1996
Other:
4Astrological and I Ching readings
5Candle affirmations 1988-n.d.
6Chinese zodiac information
7Electronic I Ching readings
8Handwriting Analysis
9Hebrew prayer book"
10"My Aztec Birthday" for Hilda and Gloria at the Denver Museum of National History
11Natal chart, Gloria Anzaldúa and Chela Sandoval
12R. Conner tarot cards
13Miscellaneous memorabilia
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N/AJournals and Scrapbooks¹
¹At the request of author and by agreement with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, Anzaldúa's personal journals and scrapbooks are closed to researchers for a period of 20 years, until January 2026.



 

Correspondence, 1972-2004

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6Alphabetical Correspondence:
1125-Ag [various], 1980-2001
2Aalfs, Janet, 1986-1992
3Al [various], 1982-2002
4Alarcón, Francisco, 1989-1999
5Alarcon, Norma, 1983-2003
6Albrecht, Lisa, 1982-1994
7Alcoset, Vicki, 1990-2001
8Allen, Jeffner, 1987-1991
9Allen, Paula Gunn, 1981
10Am-An [various], 1985-2001
11Anaya, Rudolfo, 1989-1990
12Anzaldúa, Amalia and Hilda Anzaldúa, 1977-2004
13Anzaldúa, Gloria, 1988-1992
Correspondence written by Anzaldúa to multiple or unnamed recipients.
14Anzaldúa, Urbano, 1941
15Anzaldúa Jr., Urbano and Family, 1984-2001
16Aq-Ar [various], 1983-1997
17Aptheker, Bettina, 1988-2001
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71Archer, Nuala, 1988-1995
2As-Az [various], 1983-1990
3Astraea, 1991-1998
4Aunt Lute Books, 1987-2004
5Ba-BBH [various], 1977-2001
6Bambara, Toni Cade, 1981
7Barraza, Santa 2001
8Be [various], 1978-2000
9Behar, Ruth, 1990-1995
10Berlowitz, Audrey, 1988-1993
11Bh-Bl [various], 1987-2002
12Blau DuPlessis, Rachel, 1989-1992
13Bo [various], 1992-1998
14Bogomolny, Abby, 1989-2001
15Br [various], 1982-2002
16Brant, Beth, 1982-1990
17Bridges, 1989-1996
18Brava! for Women in the Arts, 1997-2000
19Bruining, Anne Mi Ok Song, 1989-2003
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81Bu [various], 1980-1996
Burke, Ronnie
2Correspondence 1983-2002
3Works A-L, 1980-2002
4Works M-Z, 1975-2001
5Burning Bush Publications, 1996-2000
6Ca [various], 1981-2001
7Calk, Mary, 1983-1986
8Cantú, Norma, 1990-2002
9Carillo, Jo, 1981-1988
10Castillo, Ana, 1988
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91Ce-Ch [various], 1980-2001
2El Cenote, 1987-1988
3Chagoya, Aribán, 1983-1990
4Children's Book Press, 1990-2003
5Chinese Students' Letters, 2004
6Christensen, Jon, 1981
7Chrystos, 1982-2002
8Ci-Cl [various], 1977-2000
9Cisneros, Sandra, 1989-1993
10City University of New York, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1992-2001
11Co [various], 1981-2000
12Comadritas - Dissertation Writing Group, 2001-2002
13Conditions Magazine, 1979-1980
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10Conner, Randy, David Hatfield Sparks, and Mariah [Mariya] Sparks
¹At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust a portion of this correspondence is currently closed due to privacy concerns.
1Correspondence, 1975-1989
2Correspondence, 1990-1999
3Correspondence 2000-2003
4Works, 1976-1998
5Cr-Cu [various], 1985-1999
6Cruikshank, Peg, 1978-2000
7Czarrunchick, Nicolette, 1988-2000
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111Da [various], 1980-1997
2Daniels, Gabrielle, 1982
3De-Di [various], 1988-2003
4Djerassi Resident Artists Program 1998-2002
5Do-Du [various] 1983-2001
6Dorsy, Denise 1982
7Doughty, Frances 1983-2000
8Drafts of Letters, 1984-1985
Dykewomon, Elana: SEE Nachman/Dykewomon, Elana
9Ea-El [various], 1978-2001
10EMMA Buffalo Women's Bookstore, 1981-1995
11En-Ey [various], 1988-2001
12Evans, Jamie Lee 1990-1998
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121Fa-Fe [various], 1979-1996
2Fi-Fo [various] 1972-2001
3Fisher Fishkin, Shelley 1989-2000
4Fitzgerald Studio, 1997
5Ford Foundation, 1990
6Foster, Patricia, 1993-1994
7Fr [various], 1990-1998
8Free University, Amsterdam, 1987
9Frontiers, 1990-1998
10Fu [various], 1977-1996
11Future is Female, 1981-1985
12Ga [various], 1983-2003
13Gd-Ge [various], 1981-2004
14Gerbode Foundation, 1992
15Gi-Gl [various], 1983-2002
16Gn-Go [various], 1982-2002
17Gr-Gu [various], 1982-2003
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131Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center 1991-2002
2Ha [various], 1983-2003
3Hajosy, Dolores - Letter and Works, 1983
4He-Hi [various], 1980-2003
5Hedgebrook, 1997-2002
6Hernandez-Avila, Inés 1989-2001
7Ho-Hy [various], 1980-2003
8I [various], 1980-1996
9Ikas, Karin, 1996-1999
10International Feminist Book Fair, 1988-1989
11J [various], 1980-2001
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141K-Ka [various], 1982-1997
2Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie, 1984-2000
3Ke-Kl [various], 1981-2001
4Kearney, Adele, 1988-1998
Keating, AnaLouise:
5Correspondence, 1993-2004
6Emails on This Bridge We Call Home, 2000-2001
7Kendall, Kathy, 1980-1991
8Kitchen Table Press 1982-1996
9Klepfisz, Irena, 1980-1995
10Ko-Ky [various], 1986-2000
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151La [various], 1980-2004
2Lara, Irene, 1998-2004
3Le [various], 1980-2000
4Lemeh, Dori Grace 1992-1997
5Letters of Recommendation and Book Blurbs, 1992-1993
6Li-Lo [various] 1982-2000
7The Loft, 1989-1990
8Lu-Ly [various], 1988-2000
9Ma [various], 1982-2002
10Maia, 1985-1998
11Mc-Me 1977-2002
12McEwan, Christian, 1983-2003
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161Mendieta, Eduardo, 1995-1998
2Merrill Lynch, 1992-2000
3Metis Press, 1981-1983
4Mi [various], 1984-1998
5Mo [various], 1981-2002
6Moraga, Cherríe, 1979-1998
¹At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust a portion of this correspondence is currently closed due to privacy concerns.
7Moran, Mary, 1987-1991
8Moreno, Melissa 1993-2004
9Morones, Carmen, 1994-2003
10Morse, Carl, 1982
11Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), 1995-2001
12Mu [various], 1989-2004
13Na [various], 1972-1996
14Nachman/Dykewomon, Elana, 1989-2002
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171National Association of Chicano/a Studies (NACS), 1983-1993
2National Endowment for the Arts and National Research Council, 1983-1996
3National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 1982-1990
4National Writers Union, 1986-2001
5Ne [various], 1982-2002
6Ni-Nu [various], 1981-2002
7Norcroft, 1996-2001
8O-Ol [various], 1981-2004
9On-Ou [various], 1991-2002
10Ortiz de Montellano, Ana L., 1992-1993
11Pa [various], 1977-2002
12Pe-Pl [various], 1987-2001
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181La Peña, 1994-2000
2PEN American Center, 1984-1996
3Perez, Emma, 1991-1994
4Perez-Treviño, Elva, 1982-1986
5Persephone Press, 1980-1982
6Po [various], 1979-2000
7Pr-Pu [various], 1981-2002
8Press Gang Publishers, 1988-1997
9Q [various], 1989-1993
10Quan, Kit, 1981-2004
11Comments on GEA's Work, 1995
12Quiñones, Tirsa and Julie Matthei 1981-1992
13Quintanales, Mirtha, 1981-2004
14Ra-Re [various], 1981-2000
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191Ramos, Juanita, 1981-1994
2Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1971-1998
3Randall, Margaret, 1985-2000
4Reti, Irene, 1993-2002
5Reyes-Boitel, Jo Anne, 1993-1998
6Ri-Ro [various], 1984-2001
7Rich, Adrienne, 1981-1983
8Riva Rubio, Celia de la, 1994-1995
9Romero, Francisca 1988-1991
10Ross, Paula, 1983-1987
11Rosales, Victoria, 1984-1987
12Rose, Wendy, 1980
13Routledge, 1993-2003
14Ru-Ry [various], 1992-1997
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201Sa [various], 1977-2000
2San Diego State University, 1983-1997
3Sanchez, Elba, 1990-1999
4Sandoval, Chela, 1982-2001
5Savren, Shelley 1982-1984
6Sc-Sh [various], 1983-2000
7Secret Pen Pal, 1988-1989
8Shoup, Julie, 1977-1983
9Si-Sk [various], 1982-1999
10Signs 1991-1993
11Sinister Wisdom, 1983-1998
12Sm-Sn [various], 1982-2000
13Smithsonian Institution, 1988-1995
14So [various] 1984-2004
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211Sp-St [various], 1982-2003
2Speak Out!, 1995-2001
3Stone, Merlin, 1979-1983
4Su-Sy [various], 1984-2000
5Submissions "To Send Out," 1979-1985
6Ta-Te [various], 1968-2001
7Teish, Luisah, 1979-1986
8Th-Ti [various], 1982-2000
9Third Woman Press, 1981-2001
10Tijerina, Aleticia, 1981-2003
11To-Tr [various], 1989-2004
12Torres, Eden, 1990
13Ts-Tz [various], 1983-1994
14University of Arizona, 1985-2000
15Ue-University of Birmingham [various], 1985-2001
16University of Calgary - University of Kentucky [various], 1988-2004
17University of California, Berkeley, 1986-2000
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221University of California, Davis, 1993-1996
2University of California, Los Angeles - University of California, Santa Barbara [various], 1983-1998
3University of California, Santa Cruz 1984-2000
4University of Colorado 1989-1993
5University of Illinois 1982-1996
6University of Maryland - University of North Dakota [various], 1987-2002
7University of Michigan, 1990-1996
8University of New Mexico, 1989-2000
9University of Oklahoma - University of Wisconsin [various], 1985-2000
10University of Texas, Austin, 1977-1996
11Up-Ut [various], 1993-2000
12Utne Reader, 1995-1998
13Va [various], 1983-2001
14Vagabond Productions, 1995
15Varela, Viviana M., 1981-1999
16Ve-Vo [various], 1972-2004
17Vermont College, 1984-1985
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231Wa [various], 1986-2002
2Wainwright, Sonny, 1980-1984
3We [various], 1983-2003
4Weiland, Christine, 1981-1992
5Werden, Frieda, 1977-1991
6Wh-Wi [various], 1982-2002
7The White House, 1995-2000
8Williamson, Dianna 1991-1995
9Wilson Grez, Liliana, 1995-2001
10Wo-Wr [various], 1981-2002
11Woman of Power, 1984-1992
12Women's Voices, 1981-1988
13Wong, Nellie, 1979-1981
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24Woodward, Carolyn,
1Correspondence, 1988-1992
2Correspondence, 1993-2003
3Correspondence, N.d.
4Correspondence, N.d.
5Works, N.d.
6Y [various], 1984-2000
7Yale University, 1980-1984
8Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne, 1990-1992
9Young, Leslie Ann, 1979-1984
10Z [various], 1987-2004
11Zahava, Irene, 1988-1994
12Zanotti, Barbara, 1985-1987
13Zimmerman, Bonnie, 1991-1995
14Zschokke, Magdalena, 1988-1993
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25Alphabetical Correspondence, First Name Only:
1A [various], 1978-2000
2B-D [various], 1979-2003
3E-I [various], 1979-2001
4J [various], 1978-1993
5K-L [various], 1976-1998
6M-R [various], 1977-2000
7S-T [various], 1982-1996
8V-Z [various], 1983-1998
9Unidentified, 1982-1998
10Miscellaneous, 1986-2000
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26Correspondence by Subject:
El Mundo Surdo Series:
1A-L [various], 1979-1980
2M-Z [various], 1979-1980
3Mailing Lists, n.d.
Third World Women Speakers List:
4A-Z [various], 1979-1982
5Mailing Lists, n.d.
Writing Programs:
Other correspondence related to Anzaldúa's teaching and lecturing can be found in Series 5: Gigs and Teaching.
6A-C [various], 1984-1993
7Alan [no last name], 1985-1986
8Bessie [no last name], 1984-1985
9Bonnie [no last name], 1984
10Cabaniss, James, 1985-1986
11Cassie [no last name], 1984
12F-L [various], 1981-1985
13Fahy, Gail, 1984-1985
14Holland, Colleen, 1984-1985
15June [no last name], 1984-1985
16Landry, Pat, 1984
17Laura [no last name], 1984-1985
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271Lydia [no last name], 1984
2M-S [various], 1980-1985
3Marlow, Lynn, 1985-1986
4Morpheu, Lisa, 1985
5Pittman, Valerie, 1984-1985
6Rounds, Sandra, 1985
7Sue [no last name], 1984-1985
8Shea, Susan, 1985-1986
9Exercises, n.d.
10Instructor Evaluations, n.d.
11Student Information Sheets, n.d.
Signs: Journal of Women inCulture and Society:
Anzaldúa was a special guest editor for an edition of Signs. Includes manuscript submissions and related correspondence.
12Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18 (4), Summer 1993
13-14Correspondence and Submissions, 1991-1992
[5 folders]
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281-3Correspondence and Submissions, 1991-1992
[cont'd]
Writing and Reprint Correspondence:
Includes requests and agreements for reprinting or reissuing Anzaldúa's works.
4 1981-1983
5 1988
6 1989
7 1990
8 1991
9 1992
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291 1993
2 1994
3 1995
4 1996
5 1997
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301-2 1998
[2 folders]
3-4 1999
[2 folders]
5-6 2000
[2 folders]
7-9 2001
[3 folders]
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311-3 2002
[3 folders]
4 2003
5 2004, N.d.
6Aunt Lute Books permissions correspondence, 2001-2004



 

Written Works, 1965-2004

Anzaldúa's larger published works--Borderlands/La Frontera, Interviews/Entrevistas, Making Face, Making Soul, This Bridge Called My Back, and this bridge we call home--are listed first. Other works, both published and unpublished, are then listed alphabetically in Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Editorial categories. Anzaldúa's dissertation and other graduate student work is next, followed by Writing Notes, Speeches, Interviews, and Works (by others) about Anzaldúa. Many works frequently changed titles, so there may be some redundancy in the collection. For this reason Anzaldúa's original folder titles and contents were maintained when possible.
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32Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (published 1987)
1Correspondence, 1983-1985
2Notes, early materials
3Manuscript, discards
4Pre-draft early notes
5Pre-draft notes, "Atravesando Fronteras"
6Pre-draft notes, "Los Ilegales"
7Pre-draft notes, "The One Who Has Dominion Over Serpents"
8Pre-draft notes, miscellaneous
9Manuscript, 1985 version, copy 1
10Manuscript, 1985 version, copy 3
Manuscript (Prose):
11Early drafts
12Draft
13Draft copy, 19 October 1986
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331Draft copy
2Draft copy
3Draft pieces
4Early version, "Dominion Over Serpents"
5"How to Tame a Wild Tongue"
6Notes
7Outside critique
8Table of Contents
Manuscript (Poetry):
9"Antigua, Mi Diosa"/"Ancient, My Goddess"
10"Arriba Mi Gente"
11"Ballad of an Insomniac"
12"Buses don't run on Sundays"
13"The Basque Witches"
14"Cagado abismo, quiero saber" ("Cowardly Abyss, I want to know"
15"Canción de la Diosa de la Noche"
16"The Cannibal's Canción"
17"Cihuatlyotl, 'woman alone'"
18"Cervicide"
19"Compañera, Cuando Amábamos"
20"Conjuro Para Provocar Amor"
21"Corner of 50th St. and Fifth Ave."
22"Creature of Darkness"
23"Cultures"
24"la cuna"
25"la curandera"
26"Cuyamaca"
27"the dark shining thing"
28"Despierto en un monte oscuro"
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341"Don't give it a name, you say"
2"Ella tiene su tono"
3"En Mi Corazón Se Incuba"
4"En el Nombre de Todas las Madres Que Han Perdido Sus Hijos en la Guerra" ("In the Name of All the Mothers Who Have Lost Children in the War")
5"Finis"
6"Gente de Sombra"
7"Herida abierta"
8"Holy Relics"
9"horse"
10"I Had to Go Down"
11"Interface"
12"Letting Go"
13"Immaculate, Inviolate: Como Ella"
14"Matriz sin tumba O"
15"Un Mar de Repollos" ("A Sea of Cabbages")
16"Meta-mexicana"
17"mujer cacto"
18"Musa bruja"
19"My Black Angelos"
20"Nightvoice"
21"No se raje, Chicanita"
22"Nopalitos"
23"Poets Have Strange Eating Habits"
24"Protean Being"
25"Senses Drowning"
26"Sobre piedras con lagartijos"
27"el sonovabitche"
28"sus plumas al viento"
29"To live in the Borderlands means you"
30"We Call Them Greasers"
31"White Wing Season"
32"yo no fuí, fue Teté"
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351A-I [various]
2Manuscript, table of contents and preface
3Manuscript drafts, chapter 1
4Manuscript drafts, chapter 2
5Manuscript drafts, chapter 3
6Manuscript drafts, chapter 4
7Manuscript drafts, chapter 5
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361Manuscript drafts, chapter 6
2-3Manuscript drafts, chapter 7
[2 folders]
4Manuscript, end notes
5Manuscript, miscellaneous
6Production, front and end matter
7Production, page design samples
8Production, manuscript, chapters 1-4
9Production, manuscript, chapters 1-4
10Production, manuscript, chapters 1-5
11Production, manuscript, chapters 5-7
12Production, manuscript, chapters 6-7
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371Production manuscript, poetry
2Production manuscript, poetry
3Production manuscript, poetry i-iii
4Production manuscript, poetry iv-vi
5Production, manuscript, end notes
6Production, copyeditor's manuscript
7Production manuscript, Gloria's copy
8Production galleys, chapters 1-7
9Production galleys, sections i-vi
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381Production page proofs, front matter, chapters 1-7
2Production page proofs, sections i-vi
3Production typesetting
4Cover art sketches
5Publicity materials
6Publicity, book reviews
7Reviews
8-9Gig flyers
[2 folders]
10Second edition, corrections and new introduction
11"On the Process of Writing Borderlands"
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39Interviews/Entrevistas, edited by AnaLouise Keating (published 2000)
1Contract, 1998
2Correspondence, 1998
3Correspondence, 1999
4Jamie Lee Evans
5Inés Hernández Ávila
6AnaLouise Keating
7Linda Smuckler
8Table of Contents and Chapter 1 drafts
9Chapters 2 and 3 drafts
10Chapters 4 and 5 drafts
11Chapter 6 draft
12Chapter 7 draft
13Chapter 8 draft
14Chapter 9 draft
15Chapter 10 draft
16Chapter 11 draft
17Chapter 12 draft
18"Last Words," draft
19Production design sample
20Notes, misc.
21Publicity
22Revisions
23Gloria Anzaldúa's personal copy of the published book, 2000
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40Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color (published 1990)
1Prospectus draft
2Contributor lists, 1989-1990
3Correspondence, Anzaldúa, 1988-1989
4Correspondence, contributors [various], 1988-1990
5Correspondence, soliciting letter/permissions letter
6Correspondence, 1989-1990
7Project outline, 21 March 1990
8Reader reports on submissions
9Signed permission releases
10Permissions
11Contributor manuscripts
12Submission discards, A-L [various]
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411Submission discards, M-Z [various]
2-3Manuscript, earlier version, 1989
[2 folders]
4Dedication/acknowledgement, manuscript drafts
5Introduction, handwritten manuscript
6-7Introduction, manuscript drafts 1989-1990
[3 folders]
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421Introduction, manuscript drafts (cont'd), 1989-1990
2-4Introduction, manuscript drafts, N.d.
[3 folders]
5Introduction, typeset manuscript
6"En Rapport, In Opposition," notes
7"En Rapport, In Opposition," Sinister Wisdom 33 article
8"En Rapport, In Opposition," 19 January 1990
9"En Rapport, In Opposition," manuscript drafts
10Table of Contents
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431Artwork
2Essays/articles, miscellaneous
3Notes
4Production materials
5Typeset pages, selected essays and front matter
6Miscellaneous
7Publicity
8Book reviews, 1989-1991
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings of Radical Women of Color, edited by Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga (published 1981)
9Correspondence, call for submissions
10Correspondence, C. Moraga
11Correspondence, contributors A-C [various]
12Correspondence, contributors D-Y [various]
13Correspondence [various] A-L
14Correspondence [various] M-W
15Correspondence, speakers list
16Correspondence, permissions
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441Contact lists
2Administrative, contributor information
3Author contracts
4Contracts, contributors
5Contract for Spanish version, 1986
6Correspondence, Persephone Press
7Correspondence, Persephone, book orders
8Correspondence, Persephone, royalty statements
9Persephone Press prospectus
10Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press
11Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press, book orders
12Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press, royalty statements
13"La Güera," C. Moraga manuscript drafts
14"La Prieta," manuscript drafts
15"La Prieta," manuscript draft, N.d.
16"La Prieta," manuscript discards
17"La Prieta," Spanish translation
18"La Prieta," notes
19"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft
20"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft
21"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft, edited by C. Moraga
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451"Speaking in Tongues," manuscript drafts
2"Speaking in Tongues," manuscript drafts
3"Speaking in Tongues," Spanish translation
4Second edition and other editions, Foreword, 1983
5Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing" (foreword), MS drafts
6Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 12 October 2001
7Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 30 October 2001
8Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 1 November 2001
9Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 4 November 2001
10Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 7 November 2001
11Production, manuscript corrections
12Production, permissions to reprint
13Postpublication, corrections
14Production, artwork
15Book jacket, 1983
16Events, Untitled Script, N.d.
17Events, "Topics for discussion"
18Publicity, book reviews, 1981-1982
19Publicity
20Miscellaneous
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46This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating (published 2002)
Note that a quantity of electronic mail and manuscript submissions is also available--in some cases only available--for reference on compact disk in an electronic archive. This material may be requested in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room.
1Correspondence, call for submissions
2Correspondence, Anzaldúa, March 2000-September 2001
3Correspondence, Keating, November 1998- November 2000
4Correspondence, Keating, January 2001- March 2001
5Correspondence, Keating, July-August 2001
6Correspondence, Keating, September-November 2001
7Correspondence, Routledge, November 1999-September 2001
8Correspondence [various], June-December 1999
9Correspondence [various], January-May 2000
10Correspondence [various], January-October 2001
11Correspondence [various], 2002
12Prospectus
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471Submission summaries
2Submission deletions
3Submissions, A-B [various]
4Submissions, C [various]
5Submissions, D-E [various]
6Submissions, F-Go [various]
7Submissions, Gue-Gut [various]
8Submissions, H [various]
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481Submissions, J-L [various]
2Submissions, M [various]
3Submissions, N-Q [various]
4Submissions, R [various]
5Submissions, S [various]
6Submissions, T-Z [various]
7-8Submissions, turndowns
[2 folders]
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491Contributor information
2"now let us shift," early notes
3"now let us shift," writing notes, manuscript
4"now let us shift," 7 October 1999
5"now let us shift," August 2000
6"now let us shift," September 2000
7"now let us shift," 1 October 2000
8"now let us shift," 9 October 2000
9"now let us shift," October 2000
10"now let us shift," November 2000
11"now let us shift," December 2000
12"now let us shift," December 2000
13"now let us shift," 27 December 2000
14"now let us shift," 27 December 2000
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501"now let us shift," 1 January 2001
2"now let us shift," 18 January 2001
3"now let us shift," 1 February 2001
4"now let us shift," March 2001
5"now let us shift," 27 May 2001
6"now let us shift," May 2001
7"now let us shift," 15 June 2001
8"now let us shift," 18 June 2001
9"now let us shift," 18 June 2001
10"now let us shift," 12 July 2001
11"now let us shift," 13 July 2001
12-13"now let us shift," July 2001
[2 folders]
14"now let us shift," 8 August 2001
15-16"now let us shift," August 2001
[2 folders]
17"now let us shift," September 2001
18"now let us shift," 9 September 2001
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511"now let us shift," 9 September 2001
2"now let us shift," 22 September 2001
3-4"now let us shift," revisions for dissertation
[2 folders]
5"now let us shift," dissertation version, 2004
6"now let us shift," undated draft
7"now let us shift," undated draft
8"now let us shift," comments, R. Conner
9-11"now let us shift," comments, A.L. Keating
[3 folders]
12"now let us shift," comments, C. Morones
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521Drafts, Sandoval foreword
2Drafts, Keating manuscripts
3Drafts, Keating comments
4Preface drafts, N.d.
5Preface drafts, March 2001
6Preface drafts, September 2001
7Preface drafts, October 2001
8Preface drafts, November 2001
9Preface, notes, 26 November 2001
10Preface, Natural Bridges notes
11Essay drafts, A-B [various]
12Essay drafts, C-H [various]
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531Essay drafts, H-L [various]
2Essay drafts, M-P [various]
3Essay drafts, P-S [various]
4Essay drafts, T-Y [various]
5Section one drafts
6Section 2 drafts
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541Section 3 drafts
2Section 4 drafts
3Section 5 drafts
4Section 6 drafts
5Section 7 drafts
6Drafts, Table of Contents, other front matter
7Contents by genres/themes
8Publicity and editing materials
9Notes
10Miscellaneous
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55Nonfiction
Writing Guide
¹Anzaldúa's drafted guide on the process of writing. By request of the Anzaldúa estate the manuscript is closed until publication or release by the estate.
Early Notes
Notes 16 May 1999
Manuscript 6 September 2002
Chapter outline 12 November 1997
Notes 22 November 2001
"Authorship," notes 7 November 1997
"La artista y su comunidad"² 1 November 1997
²By request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, "La artista y su comunidad" is open to researchers but cannot be photocopied until publication or release by the Literary Trust.
"Autohistorias as Process Writing" 29 January 1997
"Compositioning: Theories of Art" 11 August 2000
10¹"Conocimiento," manuscript 21 January 2001
11¹"Creative Writing Exercises for Children" 23 May 1996
12¹"Dear Women Writers of Color, Letter Two" 11 August 2000
13¹"Elements of Fiction" 18 May 1999
14¹"Fast Fiction," by Roberta Allen, notes
15¹"Index" 29 January 1997
16¹"Meditation for Cleaning Out Chakras"
17¹"Nepantla and the Creative Process" 13 November 2002
18²"Nepantla: In/Between and Shifting"² 31 October 1997
²By request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, "Nepantla" is open to researchers but cannot be photocopied until publication or release by the Trust.
19¹"New Exercises" 17 February 1997
20¹"On Writing" 9 January 2004
21¹"Oral Reading/Reading Aloud" 11 November 1997
22¹"Poems to Memorize" 20 December 1997
23¹"El proceso creador/the Process" 31 October 1997
24¹"The Product" 16 May 1996
25¹"Rampas de salida" 31 October 1997
26¹"Revising" 9 February 1998
27¹"Revising and Rewriting" 19 July 1999
28¹"Self-knowledge and meditation" 5 October 1999
29¹"The Woman Who Writes" 11 August 2000
30¹"The Woman Who Writes" 19 May 1999
31¹