We soon discover that the borderlands people that inhabit Anzaldúa’s work are “the females, the homosexuals of all races, the darkskinned, the outcast, the persecuted, the marginalized, the foreign.” As a Chicana, lesbian writer, Anzaldúa’s book represents the uncompromised marking of a space and identity. It’s an act of cultural re-appropriation. Anzaldúa’s borderlands are the regions between Texas and Mexico where she was born and raised, exactly in the geographical space where political legitimacy and illegitimacy is disputed on the basis of language and skin color. It is an autobiography, an historical and social critique, a manifesto of Chicana identity, a theoretical and practical understanding of borders and their effect on the body and the psyche of those who populate them, and also a storytelling session. From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below.įrom the Great Above the goddess opened her ear to the Great Below.įrom the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below.īorderlands/La Frontera by Chicana writer and poet Gloria Anzaldúa is an indefinable work.
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