Borderlands/La Frontera
by Gloria Anzaldúa
The border isn't a line. It's a wound that won't scar.
you've ever lived between two worlds that both claim you and neither fully accepts you
⚡ Choose Your Route ⚡
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Anzaldúa wrote half of this in English and half in Spanish because neither language alone was sufficient for what she needed to say. Part memoir, part theory, part poetry — a Chicana lesbian feminist from the Texas border theorizing what it means to exist in the space between. The foundational text of border consciousness and one of the most formally radical books ever written. Nobody had written anything like it before. Nobody has quite matched it since.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireBorderlands
