Border Writings Gloria Anzaldua Summary

As the questions states, yes Gloria Anzaldua’s work has created a new area of Border Writing. Throughout her writes, Anzaldua speaks about the rights of all Spanish speakers, including herself. The author displays the types of Spanish spoken which are Standard English, Working class and slang English, Standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish dialect, Chicano Spanish, Tex-Mex, and Pachuco. They all contain the same base of Spanish but spoken differently depending on who you are talking to. The speakers of the language either enjoy or require to speak the types of Spanish. The work she has done is extremely important because it brings upon the idea of how speaking different types of languages can leave an impression on someone. Borders have formed between the types of Spanish spoken with each other as well as in few places across America, displaying the idea that ‘perfect English’ is mandatory for something so simple as requiring to order.
Just because someone can’t speak English as well as the next guy, doesn’t mean the rights of shopping should be refused. That is how borders are created, as Heewon Chang said “It is a symbol of power that imposes inclusion and exclusion. The more privileged dominant, hegemonious side will actively control the border to keep border-crossers out”. Larger more powerful countries like the States, for example, don’t just let anyone one into their country. People from Mexico searching for a new start at life are refused the right to immigrate causing them to revoke and illegally cross the border,due to the reason of not speaking the language perfectly, or looking and act differently than others. The speaker knows all about this information not because she only studied it, but live it