Into the Cenote with Gloria Anzaldua

Dark Radiance, Descent, Dwelling

By: Gabriel Hartley

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Hardcover | 15 October 2026

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Equal parts poetic and philosophical, this innovative study positions Chicana feminist activist, Gloria Anzaldºaâs canonical work as a main departure point for critical meditations on indigeneity, solidarity, and human proximity in the Americas and beyond.
By employing Anzaldºaâs notion of the open wound (una herida abierta), Gabriel Hartley argues against the Western epistemological dominance in extant conceptions of identity constructions, citizenship, belonging and, generally, discriminatory hierarchical social and cultural categorizations. Blending close engagement with Anzaldºa, decolonial thought, indigenous cosmologies, and personal visionary experience, Gabriel Hartley offers a rigorous yet evocative reimagining of darkness as a generative force in fractured times.
Divided into two stages, this book takes Gloria Anzaldºaâs concept of the Coyolxauhqui imperativeâ"dismemberment without final resolutionâ"as its guiding force, refusing narratives of healing that promise closure. Stage I, The Anzaldºan Vortex, follows a geomantic sequence through the Medicine Wheel, the open wound, curanderismo, and a series of goddess figuresâ"Coatlicue, Tlazolteotl, and Coyolxauhquiâ"understood not as symbols to be interpreted but as chthonic agencies that draw consciousness into recursive descent. Stage II, Into the Cenote, enters the cenote as a living transformation engine rather than a metaphor. Here, Hartley introduces the Cenotehedron and the Å -dimension as structures of descent, perforation, and inversion, culminating in an account of Coyolxauhquiâs dark radiance as a mode of illumination that emerges from fragmentation itself.

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