Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Luz Angélica Kirschner (South Dakota State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.7: Chicano/Latino Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Sep 1987

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
Poetry (any)
Prose Fiction Narrative

Resources

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) is probably the most influential Chicana cultural theorist, poet-philosopher, editor, and creative writer. A prolific author, she is best known for her book Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), which has been named as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century (Keating, “Introduction” 3). A number of scholars regard Borderlands/La Frontera as an autobiography, but Anzaldúa herself called her work an “autohistoria-teoría”, a term she created to describe the autobiographical writing of women of color that challenges western autobiographical notions which presuppose an autonomous, objective, detached (white, too often male) writing self. In her view, autohistoria-teoría is embodied w…

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Citation: Kirschner, Luz Angélica . "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 October 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32843, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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