Borderlands / La Frontera

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The New Mestiza 5th Edition

By Gloria Anzalda

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Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa draws from her lived experience as a Chicana, lesbian, activist, and writer to explore identity through essays and poems. It reconceptualises the idea of the "border" not merely as a physical divide but as a complex, psychological, social, and cultural space that shapes and is shaped by those within it. This influential work challenges conventional boundaries and celebrates the emergence of a "new mestiza" consciousness through bold, experimental writing.
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Ideal for readers interested in cultural studies, identity politics, Chicano/a literature, feminism, and LGBTQ+ voices. This book suits those seeking transformative and foundational works in arts and culture with a focus on social activism and border identities.

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Named one of the "Best Books of 1987" by Library Journal

Selected by Utne Reader as part of its "Alternative Canon" in 1998

One of Hungry Mind Review's "Best 100 Books of the 20th Century"

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 edition, coming March 1, 2022, will be a more condensed edition, containing only the original text from 1987, and will be at a more accessible price point for readers. For those looking for a scholarly context to this crucial work, the Critical Edition is currently available.

The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful...all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. In the borderlands, new creatures come into being. Anzaldúa celebrates this "new mestiza" in bold, experimental writing. - The Village Voice

Anzaldúa's pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands; that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America. - Women's Review of Books

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Praised for its powerful emotional and intellectual impact, this book speaks in multiple languages and perspectives, emphasising survival through understanding diverse modes of thought. The Village Voice highlights its disorienting and groundbreaking style, while the Women's Review of Books commends its innovative blending of poetry and prose that immerses readers in the complex insider/outsider experience of the borderlands.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781951874025

Publisher: Aunt Lute Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Aunt Lute Books

Edition: 5th New edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Gloria Anzalda Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Gloria Anzaldawas a Chicana-tejana-lesbian-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoringBorderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza(Aunt Lute, 1987), she was the editor of the critical anthologyMaking Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras(Aunt Lute, 1990) and co-editor ofThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color(Persephone, 1981), winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Her works also include Interviews/Entrevistas(Routledge, 2000) andThis Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited with AnaLouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). She also authored three bilingual children's books, includingPrietita Has a Friend/Prietita tiene un amigo. She taught Creative Writing, Chicano Studies, and Feminist Studies at University of Texas, San Francisco State University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and University of California Santa Cruz.

Gloria Anzalda passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Scholar Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards, including the Anzalda Scholar Activist Award and the Gloria E. Anzalda Award for Independent Scholars, are awarded in her name every year.