Borderlands

In Borderlands, the speaker struggles with fitting into a specific category of race, leaving her feeling unaccepted by any of the five cultures she is made up of. In stanza one, Gloria explains how she may be “ hispana, india, negra, espanola, [and] mulatto” but still is not accepted into any of societies categorizations of race. This expresses how Anz can personally identify herself with her mixed races, but the members of the specific races can not. Gloria also struggled with being pushed…

Gloria Anzaldúa provides a great account of how it is to be a chicano(a) in the borderlands. In her book Borderland/ La Frontera she exposes the hardships that chicanas have to face such as the identity crisis the face, the machismos and the infringement of the Hispanic culture. In the chapter “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Anzaldúa describes the Chicano(a) in the United States are told not to express themselves in their native language as “linguistic terrorism” since it instills fear and shame…

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “Borderlands: The New Mestiza: La Frontera.” (1987). Course Reserves University of Florida Web. 8 November 2016. Thesis (50 words) In her book “Borderlands: La Frontera”, Gloria Anzaldúa composes her experience as a queer Chicana inhabitant of the Mexican side of the borderlands to encourage others to accept their linguistic and cultural identity. She believes that Anglos and men silence the voices of Latinos and women, but they must persevere. Summary (643 words) Anzaldúa…

The Suffering Of Living In The Borderlands To live in the borderlands means you is a poem written by Gloria Anzaldua who was born in 1942 in the state of Texas. A border, as Anzaldua states, “is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge” (Anzaldua 25). Created by the unnatural separation, a borderland is a harsh and unfriendly place. In Anzaldua’s poem, the borderland refers to the Texas-US. Southwest/ Mexican border geographically. At the same time, it is used reputedly as an extended…

Coming from from a Chicano heritage, Anzaldúa is the protagonist in Borderlands/La Frontera, devoted to finding her place in her Chicano culture. Similar to Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate has also demonstrated the values of going through adolescence with being aware of his past through memories and history, and while trying to immerse himself of his culture as he pieces together the memories of his grandmother and his ancestral history that allows him to discover his true identity. As for…

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa is a book overflowing with challenging questions and thoughts about cultures and how they interact to shape a person. Throughout the book, Anzaldúa shares her own experiences and relates them to universal problems with sexism, racism and other forms of belittling people and their sense of self. She speaks of a borderland, very much a physical one but even more so a cultural and spiritual one that forces those who are different to feel…

Last week I read chapter two of Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera. Through reading the chapter, I learned more of how oppressive the Chicano culture can be toward all of its members. When I speak of all its members, I mean those who view themselves as homosexual, bisexual, or even members who display behaviors that are uncharacteristic to the Chicano culture. Oscar Casares’ Brownsville, details how patriarchal societies overlook women compared to men. However, Anzaldua broadens the spectrum of…

tourist attractions. These attractions were left behind for history to be spoken. San Antonio portrays a good image of the development of its history in the success of improvement, action, and dynamics as it can relate to the article of “A Spanish borderland community: San Antonio” by Jesus F. De La Teja given to discuss the brief information to explain Fr. Benito Fernandez’s letter. Wise choice that the missions did was by expanding the San Antonio area for improvement. The missions that were…

Throughout the novel Borderlands: La Frontera The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa, expresses her stories of growing up between two worlds. Gloria mentions how through her whole life she was forced to pick up certain customs that balanced between the Mexico and American side. However, Gloria believed that the only traditionaly customs she wouldn’t follow we’re the one’s that hold her back from reaching her goals. Upon reading the book, Gloria mentioned: Humildes yet proud, quietos yet wild,…

So many couples have thought about moving to Sweden but it’s a tradition to live near one’s immediate family in the Pakistani families. Thus, these Pakistani families have a dilemma. In the article, “Semi-Legal Life: Pakistani Couples in the Borderlands of Denmark and Sweden,” Mikkel Rytter…