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Bones and Skin: Anzaldúa’s Bodymindsouls

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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Hemispheric Performativity

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Gloria Anzaldúa defined writing as corporeal practice and the creation of concepts as a bodily act:

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Radlwimmer, R. (2023). Bones and Skin: Anzaldúa’s Bodymindsouls. In: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Hemispheric Performativity. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21870-5_3

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