Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Gloria Anzaldua

• Other Authors Norma Cantu (Introduction), Aida Hurtado (Introduction)
• Title

  Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

• Date 2021 [1987]
• ISBN 9781879960954
• Publisher San Francisco, CA : Aunt Lute Books,
• Description 304 p; 9 in
• Language English, Spanish
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  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 (Aunt Lute Books). 

• Tags American poetry -- 20th century, Mexican American literature, Mexican poetry - 20th century