"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 twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new introduction by scholars Norma Cantu (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Aida Hurtado (University of California at Santa Cruz) as well as a revised critical bibliography."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction to the fourth edition / Norma E. Cantú and Aída Hurtado -- Editor's note -- Preface to the first edition / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Atravesando fronteras = Crossing borders. The homeland, Aztlán = El otro México -- Movimientos de rebeldiá y las culturas que traicionan -- Entering into the serpent -- La herencia de Coatlicue = The Coatlicue state -- How to tame a wild tongue -- Tlilli, tlapalli = The path of the red and black ink -- La conciencia de la mestiza = Towards a new consciousness -- Notes. -- Un agitado viento = Ehécatl, the wind: Más antes en los ranchos -- La Pérdida -- Crossers y otros atravesados -- Cihuatlyotl, woman alone -- Animas -- El retorno. -- Appendix. Introduction to the third edition -- Introduction to the second edition / Sonia Salvídar-Hull -- Interview -- [Selected bibliography] -- [Contributors] -- [About the author].
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