Borderlands: The New Mestiza"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing 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." |
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Contents
Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan page | 15 |
Entering Into the Serpent page | 25 |
La herencia de Coatlicue The Coatlicue State page | 41 |
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