In Gloria Anzaldua’s book Borderlands La Frontera‚ The New Mestiza‚ she shares her experience in a post-colonial world as a Chicana‚ a lesbian and a woman who grew up in a cross-cultured area trying to understand her identity but also to make us rethink about what a border is and what are the consequences which come with it. Anzaldua creates a “mestiza consciousness” as a dynamic capable of breaking down dualistic ascendant archetypes. This concept is related to “hybridity”‚ a mixed race‚ which will
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza – Gloria E. Anzaldúa In describing a state-of-being in the notorious lands in-between – a space often described as suitable for only the stigmatized (Goffman 1963)‚ the wandering gender-immigrant (Lorber 1994)‚ and the political excommunicated‚ that banished dissident-‚ Gloria Anzaldúa is doing a lot of work. For example‚ by noting that separation from traditional places of origins (whether by choice or by force) does not mean having to detach from that which
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Laura Carpenter EH 422 4 November 2015 Anzaldua‚ Gloria. “Borderlands/La Frontera.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing‚ 2004. 1017- 1030. Print. Through accounts of her own life experiences‚ Anzaldua creates an analogy with the Mexican/American border as it relates to the acceptance of opposing groups. She seeks to lead the oppressors to reexamine their perspectives of those whom they oppress. In doing so‚ Anzaldua recalls a meeting
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that men drove underground and the ways in which traditional culture once gave more power to women. She pries off the layers of history to find the multiple complex strands that compose her identity and calls for the people who are dominant in the borderland culture to recognize and empower those who are
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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
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book Borderlands/ La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua uses poetic prose to relate her many years of anger from trying to integrate the clashing morals of her Mexican‚ American‚ and Indian cultures. Anzaldua ultimately concludes that for people caught in this clash‚ decolonization from both Mexican and American society‚ in order to create a new “borderland” culture‚ it is a productive and positive step toward psychological health. Before Anzaldua can give her solutions to the problems borderland people
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Michael Thompson SXS 667 – Reading Response Paper #3 ID# 909067827 July 3‚ 2013 In her essay La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua provides a detailed history of the persecution of the Chicano settlers of the U.S. Southwest at the hands of their Anglo oppressors. Anzaldua refers to the Aztlan‚ the borderlands between the United States and Mexico encompassing parts of Texas‚ New Mexico‚ Arizona‚ and California‚ as a “vague and undetermined place created by the
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family inside and outside this economically poor household. These images and symbols that the Latina woman has had to deal with have been transferred into the social and educational sphere‚ limiting her opportunities. In Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza she discusses the various elements of her life up to adulthood and the adversities she had to overcome because of being an educated‚ gay Latina. Her journey is highlighted through the historical and the mythical in ways that
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In Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera‚ she discusses the people who are in between – how people can’t be put into boxes. Anzaldua (1987) talks about embracing the in between and getting past cultural tyranny‚ which is where the culture forms what we believe about these certain identities. These identities‚ or boxes‚ that culture gives us consist of a number of different labels: male‚ female‚ white‚ black‚ Mexican‚ gay/lesbian‚ and straight. The list goes on and on. People are given these labels
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Gloria Anzaldua was oppressed by the white side of the gender system and by her own culture. Colonialism‚ capitalism and race cannot be separated when looking at the gender system. Chapter two "Movimientos de redeldia y las culturas que traicionan" from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua contributed to a queering of race‚ meaning that the man/woman dichotomy was challenged. The whole gender system was racialized. It showed the relationship between intersectionality. Intersectionality
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