Gloria Anzaldúa Altares collection 1942-2004

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Gloria Anzaldúa Altares collection 1942-2004

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This collection of figurines, small clay pots, masks, rattles, candles, altar cloths, and other ephemera was used by Gloria Anzaldúa as altar (altares) objects at her home in Santa Cruz, California. These altares were an integral part of her spiritual life and creative process as a writer.

13 cartons, 1 map roll

eng,

University of California, Santa Cruz. . University Library Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6660790

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Anzaldúa, Gloria

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Biography "I sit here before my computer, Amiguita, my altar on top of the monitor with the Virgen de Coatlalopeuh candle and copal incense burning. My companion, a wooden serpent staff with feathers, is to my right while I ponder the ways metaphor and symbol concretize the spirit and etherealize the body. The Writing is my whole life, it is my obsession." Gloria E. Anzaldúa from Borderlands/La Frontera (Aunt Lute Books, 1999) In...