- Mexican American women, Civilization, Race relations, Folklore
"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
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Character-led, contemplative, earnest and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- Spinsters/Aunt Lute, Aunt Lute Books, aunt lute books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781879960855
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“A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.” – Gloria Anzaldúa Gloria E. Anzaldúa was a guiding force in defining the contemporary Chicano/Chicana movement and a leader in lesbian and queer theory and identity. Born in southern Texas in 1977 she moved to California where she supported herself through her writing, lectures, and occasionally teaching courses in feminism, Chicano studies, or creative writing. She is perhaps best known for co-editing This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) with Cherri Moraga, a groundbreaking publication not only as a collection by feminists of color, but also for confronting the racism/classism found at the tim
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