Analysis Of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands La Frontera

Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera the New Mestiza was hard to get through at times because of its distorted structure. The novel consists of short passages, historical contexts, poems, recollections, personal experiences, quotes and much more. The reason that I found it difficult to get through the text was because it was partially in English and partially in Spanish. My lack of fluency in the foreign language that she used created a barrier that did not allow me to fully understand what was trying to be communicated to me, but from this work I was able to receive another message instead.
A major theme of this book is borders and barriers. In this novel, she makes claims about not only the physical border that she has encountered like