غلوريا إي. أنزالدوا

الأعمال

• 1987الأراضي الحدودية/لا فرونتيرا: المستيزا الجديدة (Borderlands/La Frontera)

  نثر وشعر بالإنجليزية والإسبانية: الحياة على الحدود موطنًا لوعي المستيزا الجديد، التعددي.

الموقف

In Borderlands/La Frontera Anzaldúa writes in English, Spanish, Tex-Mex and Nahuatl about the US–Mexico border as an “open wound” where worlds collide. From her experience as a Chicana, lesbian and working-class woman caught between cultures, she develops a “new mestiza consciousness”: a tolerance for ambiguity that holds contradictions together instead of choosing one side. She takes up Vasconcelos’s cosmic race as a vision of inclusion rather than purity and draws on Aztec figures such as the goddess Coatlicue. Later she described nepantla, the Nahuatl word for the in-between, as a painful but creative state of transition. Her work shaped Chicana and queer theory and Mignolo’s border thinking.

الحياة والسياق

Gloria Anzaldúa was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas to a Mexican-American family of farm and ranch workers. She studied at Pan American University and the University of Texas at Austin and taught at schools and universities. With Cherríe Moraga she edited This Bridge Called My Back (1981), an anthology of writing by women of colour that became a founding text of women-of-colour feminism. She died in 2004; her doctorate was awarded posthumously.

أعمال رئيسة أخرى

• This Bridge Called My Back (co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, 1981)
• Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro (2015, posthumous)

يرد في

• رحلة «أمريكا اللاتينية وأمريكا الأصلية» · المحطة 11 من 13