Revisiting the borderlands. A critical reading of Gloria Anzaldoa's Borderlands/La Frontera: towards a New Mestiza

• Autores: Juan Antonio Perles Rochel
• Localización: Evolving origins, transplanting cultures: literary Legacies of the news Americans / coord. por Laura Alonso Gallo; Antonia Domínguez Miguela (aut.), 2002, ISBN 978-84-95699-70-1, págs. 229-235
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This brief essay intends to explore the "essentialist" aspects of Gloria Anzaldtla's "seminal" work Borderlans/La Frontera: Towards a New Mestiza (1987). Considering Anzaldua's text within both a postmodern and postcolonial perspective, it is possible, the author maintains, to find tensions and implications that recommend a critical revision of her work. According to the author, Anzaldtia's can be reasonably understood as a contradictory space in which the tensions between utopian thinking and the pragmatism of progressive politics can be felt.