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Borderlands = La frontera : the new mestiza /

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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, presen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anzaldúa, Gloria (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:Text in English and Spanish.
Published: San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, [2012]
Edition:25th anniversary, fourth edition.
Subjects:
Mexican American women > Poetry.
Mexican-American Border Region > Poetry.
Mexican-American Border Region > Civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the fourth edition / Norma E. Cantú and Aída Hurtado
  • Editor's note
  • Preface to the first edition / Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Atravesando fronteras = Crossing borders. The homeland, Aztlán = El otro México
  • Movimientos de rebeldiá y las culturas que traicionan
  • Entering into the serpent
  • La herencia de Coatlicue = The Coatlicue state
  • How to tame a wild tongue
  • Tlilli, tlapalli = The path of the red and black ink
  • La conciencia de la mestiza = Towards a new consciousness
  • Notes.
  • Un agitado viento = Ehécatl, the wind: Más antes en los ranchos
  • La Pérdida
  • Crossers y otros atravesados
  • Cihuatlyotl, woman alone
  • Animas
  • El retorno.
  • Appendix. Introduction to the third edition
  • Introduction to the second edition / Sonia Salvídar-Hull
  • Interview
  • [Selected bibliography]
  • [Contributors]
  • [About the author].