Gloria Anzaldúa has come a long way from growing up in the town of Hargill, Texas, to her current status as university teacher, lecturer in Third World feminism, and accomplished author in the ...
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In the following essay, originally published in a 1994 issue of Cultural Critique, Yarbro-Bejarano discusses Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza or border consciousness in relation to the theor...
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In the following essay, Reuman asserts that Anzaldúa utilizes her voice to protest injustices against women and people of color and ranks the author as a bold and valuable figure in the modern ...
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In the following essay, Embry explores issues of Chicana cultural and sexual identity in Borderlands/La Frontera.
Borderlands in the Academy
When introducing an upper-level undergraduate course in Chi...
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In the following essay, Fowlkes maintains that Borderlands/La Frontera “develops and presents a form of subjectivity and the needed standpoint that prepare the ground for using feminist identit...
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In the following essay, Barnard examines Anzaldúa's utilization of queer theory in Borderlands/La Frontera.
In the 1992 “queer issue” of The Village Voice, Dennis Cooper qu...
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In the following essay, Saldívar-Hull elucidates Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness in Borderlands/La Frontera, viewing it as an articulation of “the politics of fe...
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In the following essay, Rotger uses the term “sangre fértil” to describe Anzaldúa's ability to speak from a borderland position between a variety of cultures, langua...
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In the following essay, Alarcón analyzes the role of Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness in her attempt to repossess the borderlands in Borderlands/La Frontera.
The Inscrip...
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In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Torres situates Anzaldúa's work within the cultural context of postmodernism via the literary and phil...
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