Gloria Anzaldúa – Borderlands/La Frontera

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who wrote Borderlands/La Frontera?

Gloria Anzaldua

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Genre of Borderlands/La Frontera?

Poetry

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Form of Borderlands/La Frontera?

Book of prose and poems

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year Borderlands/La Frontera was published?

1987

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how did Anzaldua craft her poetic style?

-semi-autobiographical

-hybrid style

-symbolic spacing

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hybrid style:

*mixing genres – prose and poetry

*mixes words and numbers

*mixes history and mythology

*mixes languages – English, Spanish, Nahuatl/Aztec, Yoruba/West African

*kaleidoscopic writing like Tejano-Mexican mosaic art

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why does anzaldua write Borderlands/La Frontera? (1)

– Present wholistic history of the land

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why does anzaldua write Borderlands/La Frontera? (2)

– Address misrepresentation of Chicanx (Mexican-Americans) identity in the U.S.

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why does anzaldua write Borderlands/La Frontera? (3)

– Borders violent & unnatural sites = “emotional residue”

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why does anzaldua write Borderlands/La Frontera? (4)

– Borders power-laden places that exclude

-“Legitimate” = in power VS “Illegal” = not in power

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why does anzaldua write We Call Them Greasers ?

-colonization= white male aggression over chicanx/brown man

-chicanx women? = doubly oppressed; racism (white men) + patriarchy (white men and brown men).