Interviews/Entrevistas

June 1, 2000
Over the course of 20 years and 100 interviews with friends, students, community activists, and others, Anzaldua always made it clear that at some point she wanted the interviews collected and published. For the prolific lesbian Chicana author, interviews are another kind of oral writing that provides an immediacy, an openness, and a self-exposure greater than that of any spontaneity in her meticulously revised publications. These dialogues and conversations give Anzaldua's perspectives on her work, the multiple and overlapping realities of her life, her beliefs about fluid sexual identities and desires, and her theories on convergence--a way of writing that combines the sexual, the mental, the emotional, and the psychic-supernatural in a written stream-of-consciousness. In addition to interviews from 1982^-99, Keating's compilation includes profiles of the interviewers. ((Reviewed June 1 & 15, 2000))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2000, American Library Association.)