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- Title
A Borderland Consciousness: Una conciencia de mujer in Borderlands/La frontera.
- Authors
García, Ana Cruz
- Abstract
The article examines the personal thinking space about the colonization described by Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana critic and author of the book "Borderlands/La Frontera." Accordingly, the Chicana writer examines the colonization of language and space that has characterized the American Southwest by going back to the Aztic-Mexica culture and the Spanish conquest. It notes that the question of gender lie quietly put to one side beneath her discussions on cultural, postcolonial, and border studies. It concludes that the Chicana writer claims a mestiza consciousness that exhibits a border thinking and a new way of knowing once the indigenous women and the modern Chicana's silenced voices are heard.
- Subjects
LAND settlement; MEXICAN Americans; ANZALDUA, Gloria, 1942-2004; MEXICAN American authors; BORDERLANDS (Book); BOOK reviewing; COLONIZATION; CULTURE; GENDER; POSTCOLONIALISM; EDUCATION
- Publication
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research, 2008, Vol 1, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1867-1519
- Publication type
Article