Prieta Is Dreaming: A cuentos-novela

By Gloria E. Anzaldúa

A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzald a.

Best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Gloria E. Anzald a was also a prolific fiction writer. Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-stories, follows the precocious Prieta from her childhood in South Texas to college and beyond as she tries to find her way in the world. Imbued with supernatural powers, Prieta traverses time, changes form, explores her desires, and defies convention. Started in the 1970s and revised up until Anzald a's death in 2004, Prieta Is Dreaming comes as a revelation, affirming Anzald a's place at the forefront of contemporary feminist, queer, and border theory, while transforming what we think about both her writing and ourselves. In these nineteen intertwined stories, we find some of Anzald a's most adventurous, inspired ideas about gender, sexuality, and the very nature of existence-as well as a character, la Prieta, as bold and memorable as the book itself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7K7THJL
• ISBN13: 9798855804546
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher