Anzaldúa’s Mestiza: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
Posted in Latino/a Literature & Culture, Theory on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
For all the controversy that surrounds it, Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza remains a seminal work. Anzaldúa sifts through the dualistic and hegemonic aspects of cultural identity with beauty and passion. Her work exhibits a pluralistic self-identity in the Chicana mestiza (her description of border consciousness).
Borderlands/La Frontera has always had an ironic reception. Typically, [...]
