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Borderlands/La Frontera

Gloria Anzaldúa

  • 251 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1987
  • 25 editions
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1 About this book

"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. This 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction comprised of commentaries from writers, teachers, and activists on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa's visionary work."--Jacket.

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Good for readers who want: essays, philosophy, and poetry.

  • Mexican american women
  • Race relations
  • Mexican Americans
  • Essays
  • Philosophy
  • Civilization
  • Folklore
  • Poetry

2 About Gloria Anzaldúa

1942–2004

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an Chicana philosopher and scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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