Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Feminist Body Writing and Borderlands
Grażyna Zygadło
- 220 pages
- English
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Feminist Body Writing and Borderlands
Grażyna Zygadło
About This Book
Gloria E. Anzaldúa is a crucial figure in contemporary border and women's studies. When in 1987 she published her groundbreaking book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, she became one of the most often quoted writers of the US–Mexico border, but she remains relatively little known outside Americas.
In one of the first monographs written on her work, Gra?na Zygad?o introduces Anzaldúa's work and outlines her feminist revisionist thinking to new audiences, especially in Europe. The author defines these borderlands as areas where numerous systems of power, exploitation, and oppression intersect – capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and white man's supremacy. She also concentrates on the innovative philosophy of women's writing from the body that Anzaldúa has propagated and on her formative role in the women of color feminism. Zygad?o also works to expand Anzaldúa's borderland thinking by applying it to the recent issues related to migration crisis and border problems in the European Union – namely the contradictory treatment of refugees at the Polish eastern border.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa is situated at the intersection of various disciplines, in particular, American cultural studies, feminist criticism, and Latin American postcolonial studies, and is a valuable source of knowledge about Anzaldúa's ideas for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: “I put myself in the words I write”
- 1 “I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry ‘home’ on my back”: Gloria Anzaldúa’s life and work
- 2 “Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks”: Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories and ideas
- 3 “Where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds”: Borderlands theory according to Gloria Anzaldúa
- 4 “I usually learn the most when I teach”: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa at the Polish University to the international students
- Conclusion: “Who am I a poor Chicanita, from the sticks, to think I could write” – Gloria Anzaldúa’s legacy
- References
- Annex
- Index