Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Fourth Edition

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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Fourth Edition. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldas 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 Cant (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Ada Hurtado (University of California at Santa Cruz) as well as a revised critical bibliography. "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. Anzalda celebrates this new mestiza in bold experimental writing."The Village Voice "Anzaldas 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."Womens Review of Books