Borderlands: The New Mestiza"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. 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. 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.--BOOK JACKET. |
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... heads the heads turning round and round spokes of a wheel her neck is an axle she stares at each face other not there ... head the cracks ricocheting bisecting crisscrossing she hears the rattlesnakes stirring in a jar being fed with her ...
... heads the heads turning round and round spokes of a wheel her neck is an axle she stares at each face other not there ... head the cracks ricocheting bisecting crisscrossing she hears the rattlesnakes stirring in a jar being fed with her ...
Page 118
... head . She can always clean shit out of white folks toilets - the Mexican maid . You're respected if you can use your head instead of your back , the women said . Ay m'ijos , ojalá que hallen trabajo in air - conditioned offices . The ...
... head . She can always clean shit out of white folks toilets - the Mexican maid . You're respected if you can use your head instead of your back , the women said . Ay m'ijos , ojalá que hallen trabajo in air - conditioned offices . The ...
Page 127
... head , spitting at the ground . Vámonos , mujer , empaca el mugrero . He hands me a cup of coffee , half of it sugar , half of it milk my throat so dry I even down the dregs . It has to be done . Steeling myself I take that walk to the ...
... head , spitting at the ground . Vámonos , mujer , empaca el mugrero . He hands me a cup of coffee , half of it sugar , half of it milk my throat so dry I even down the dregs . It has to be done . Steeling myself I take that walk to the ...
Contents
The Homeland Aztlán El otro México page | 1 |
Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan page | 15 |
Entering Into the Serpent page | 25 |
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