business interests and the land that have resulted in a situation of Mexican oppression. She goes into the history of indigenous migration to the area and the history of the border itself, describing the relationships between U.S. Anzaldúa celebrates this "new mestiza" in bold, experimental writing.Īnzaldúa's pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America.ģ00 pp | Paperback | 2012 | 8.4 x 0.9 x 5.Beginning with a chapter on the history of the borderland as homeland for the Aztecs, Anzaldúa provides an initial deconstruction of the U.S.-Mexico borderland as an open wound where cultures meet to become a third border country.
In the borderlands new creatures come into being. The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful…all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. This 25th anniversary edition features a new introduction by scholars Norma Cantú (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Aída Hurtado (University of California at Santa Cruz) as well as a revised critical bibliography. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a “border” is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity.
One of Hungry Mind Review's “Best 100 Books of the 20th Century” Selected by Utne Reader as part of its “Alternative Canon” in 1998 Named one of the “Best Books of 1987” by Library Journal
Borderlands/La Frontera The New Mestiza,Fourth Edition
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