How Borders Come to Matter? The "Physicality" of the Border in Gloria Anzaldúa’s "Borderlands/La Frontera"

In this piece I attempt to address the ways in which Gloria Anzaldúa, in Borderlands: La Frontera (2007), negotiates the idea of the border as having both discursive and material dimensions. In creating a new mestiza consciousness from the borderland, which is the space that is affected by the bord...

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Main Author: Melina Pereira Savi
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2015-06-01
Series:Anuário de Literatura
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/38408