this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation
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Book Summary Editor: Gloria E. Anzaldua Editor: Analouise Keating Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2002-09-20 ISBN: 0415936829 Number of pages: 624 Publisher: Routledge |
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Book Reviews of the this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation
Customer Review: A Very Powerful Book!
Summary: 4 Stars
In the anthology, "this bridge we call home", we see the passionate, explicit, and life-changing stories of women and men of all races, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. This book along with its "mother text" of "This Bridge Called My Back" has been very successful in allowing "absent" groups in the feminist movement to have a voice and an opinion when they were overlooked, or simply ignored before. In the preface of this book, one of the editors, Gloria Anzaldua, discusses the meaning of a bridge in these books. The metaphor of a bridge is used to describe the efforts of people involved with social change to reach out, accept, and embrace people who are different from them. It is only when we build bridges with others and thus, connect with other people that we can truly see a radical transformation in society. Anzaldua's main purpose of this book is for all people to be able to "imagine a reality that differs from what already exists."
In the introduction by AnaLouise Keating, the reader is given a timeline of events in creating this second anthology. Keating discusses the trials and tribulations that the editors had to go through in creating this book. She also discusses the editors' idea of having people from many different groups contribute to this book as opposed to the first book that only women of color contributed to. Keating also discusses the meaning of nepantla, which is a point where we're exiting from the old worldview, but have not yet entered or created a new one to replace it. A common theme throughout the book is whether or not people are able to exit from the patriarchal society in which they have always lived and enter a new society where everyone is seen as equals and treated fairly. Keating calls this the whole challenge of the book as she writes, "may this book challenge you to choose, challenge us to cross over." In the foreword, Chela Sandoval discusses the meaning of emancipation in terms of social change. She focuses on "emancipating citizen-subjects from institutionalized hatred, domination, subordination: it is a methodology of love." Whether male or female, black or white, homosexual or heterosexual, rich or poor, I think that all people can truly benefit from this book and the message that it offers to all of us in working towards the "progression of political, social, and spiritual movements for justice, peace, and love."