Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldua
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books

Solsen Summary of “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness.” Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. It was the first time, I had seen myself reflected in the pages of a book. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1999. The presence of such contradictions, however, does not negate the oppositional value of works such as Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite (1935) or Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). Gloria Anzaldua's book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, published in 1987, is the story of existence in lots of cultures near the Mexico/Texas national boundaries. Coatlicue Boderlands, La Frontera: The New Mestiza. A border is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. Coatlicue brings together life and death, the serpent and the eagle much in the same way Chican@s are trying to exist in the Borderlands, in between two worlds. Borderlands – La Frontera: The New Mestiza. €The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. I read a portion of Gloria's book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, which I would eventually take upon myself to complete. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Posted on February 7, 2011 by ellewinston Leave a comment. I recently finished reading her opus magnum Borderlands. Her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza[4] is a theoretical and poetical study in which the border not only presents a theme, it has also produced new narrative forms such as hybrid genres.