The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook

“Presenting an invaluable and unique resource for established Anzaldúa scholars and anyone else wanting to learn more about Anzaldúa’s ideas, this book details how Anzaldúa’s most important ideas developed and changed over time while pointing readers to the best sources for understanding these ideas in greater depth. This is the most comprehensive study of Anzaldúa in existence.” - Suzanne Bost, author of Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism

“AnaLouise Keating’s scope of knowledge about the Anzaldúa archive and its broader context is unparalleled. This book is a treasure trove of insights into Anzaldúa’s little-known unpublished archival materials that deepen understanding of key Anzaldúan theories in relationship to one another as well as to her life and writing process. It is a tremendous offering of material for students, scholars, teachers, and practitioners of Anzaldúan thought that serves as an invitation to keep generating and co-creating conocimientos, as well as providing the methods to do so.” - Irene Lara, coeditor of Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives

"The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook is eminently readable and is full of Keating’s expert commentary, and for that reason, it is an ideal text for teaching students at every level, including those of us who need reminders of how Anzaldúa’s legacy reverberates beyond the formative work she did in the 1980s." - Francisco E. Robles, A Contracorriente

"AnaLouise Keating’s The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook is a remarkable, intimate examination of Anzaldúa’s theoretical methodologies that is derived from close readings of her unpublished manuscripts and archival ephemera. Unlike other anthologies that offer only a broad overview of an author’s most prolific work, Keating’s Handbook submerges readers into the depths of Anzaldúa’s thought process, mindset, and personal life as she compiled and produced her writings. Keating proffers an invaluable, touching, and holistic perspective on Anzaldúa’s work not only as a scholar but also as a beloved friend and mentor." - Nadiyah Aamer, Aztlán