Book

Author

Anzaldua, Gloria

Title

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Edition

2

Imprint

Aunt Lute, San Francisco, 1999

Abstract

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.