Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Hardcover | Pages: 260 pages Rating: 4.3 | 8817 Users | 356 Reviews
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| Title | : | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza |
| Author | : | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Second Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 260 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1999 by Aunt Lute Books (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Feminism. Nonfiction. GLBT. Queer. Philosophy. Theory. Race |
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Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. Writing in a lyrical mixture of Spanish and English that is her unique heritage, she meditates on the condition of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. Her essays and poems range over broad territory, moving from the plight of undocumented migrant workers to memories of her grandmother, from Aztec religion to the agony of writing. Anzaldua is a rebellious and willful talent who recognizes that life on the border, "life in the shadows," is vital territory for both literature and civilization. Venting her anger on all oppressors of people who are culturally or sexually different, the author has produced a powerful document that belongs in all collections with emphasis on Hispanic American or feminist issues.Particularize Books In Favor Of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
| Original Title: | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza |
| ISBN: | 1879960575 (ISBN13: 9781879960572) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.3 From 8817 Users | 356 ReviewsNotice Regarding Books Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The primary reason this gets five stars is its importance -- in the 80s when it was written and even moreso now. It was a groundbreaking classic then (especially for people who identified as chicana and/or lesbian) and, I think, absolutely needs to be read by a larger audience now. Gloria Anzaldua writes about the experience of inhabiting multiple identities (chicana, male/female, lesbian, mexican, indigenous, texan) and the challenge of moving in multiple worlds (at times all most have rejectedBorderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa is a HIGHLY recommended book for anyone interested in indigenous religion, gender studies, the history of the Southwestern United States, the history of the Chicano people, and ALL women of color.Some passages that resound:A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary.The world is not a safe place to live in. We shiver in separate cells in enclosed cities, shoulders hunched,
It's hard to "review" something this good, this special, this singular. It also seems unnecessary. After all, this is a germinal, oft referenced, essential book for reasons that quickly become self-evident after opening its pages. But I can offer a sentence or two, despite sounding like ad copy. What Anzaldúa offers here, among other things, is a powerful weaving of psychoanalysis with a meditation of the radical heterogeneity of identities and experiences organized under the rubrics of
living in the san francisco mission district i realize i want to know more about malinche, holding antinormative spirits close within ambient colonized desire, sifting through a miscellaneous array of semi-viable compromises. if consciousness perceiving the phenomenon is always some kind of compromise, then how do we speak about this particular view from the street in amerikkka? people use this book to be able to turn compromise into a plus, and i really feel that. but i can't go there all the
Gorgeous writing, crafting a way of seeing, experiencing, being in the world. Identity politics at its most rooted and important. The first half of this book is a critical theory essay on the epistemology (way of knowing) of a person whose very being is sin frontéras, crossing borders: Chicana, mestiza, queer, woman, class mobile and educated, critical. This first part devolves a little into esoteric musings I couldn't always grasp; reading, listening, but acknowledging that I didn't understand.
A buck toothed kid who grows up in a mixed working class family with a Mexican dad she only sees on Mondays for most of her life falls in love with cyborgs and years later comes across this book at the tail end of a bereft and difficult two years where she's been too sad and overcome with anger at the world to find anything in it to ground herself. Roses and serpents and la Virgen de Guadalupe and spanish words and spirit language and dark stillness. This continent we walk on has a history as
While this is, for me, someone not interested in the topic of mestiza/Mexican culture, not a good read, I will say this should be a standard for anyone studying racial stuff in university. It talks a lot about passing, a lot about conquering passing, and gives SUCH GOOD INFORMATION that you can use in almost all manner of essays involving race. I have applied this book to just about everything and it has worked flawlessly. It's worth it if you're in the collegiate and essaying realm. Outside,
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