{"id":1259,"date":"2011-05-30T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:31:05","slug":"borderlansla-frontera-the-new-mestiza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Borderlans\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borderlans\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, San Fransisco, Aunt Lute (1987).<br \/>\nby <strong>Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rooted in Gloria Anzald\u00faa&#8217;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. <i>Borderlands \/ La Frontera <\/i>remaps our understanding of what a &#8220;border&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/strong> (1942\u20132004) was a scholar of Chicana cultural, feminist, and queer theory. Her most well-known book, Borderlands\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) is on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization into her work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdfs\/GloriaAnzaldua-BorderlandsLafrontera.pdf\">download pdf&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/p>\n<p>Rooted in Gloria Anzald\u00faa&#8217;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 &#8220;border&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}