Anzaldúa, Gloria: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Fourth Edition) by Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute Books, paperback) Publication Date: June 12, 2012 Publisher Marketing: Fourth Edition. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.This twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new introduction by scholars Norma Cantú (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Aída Hurtado (University of California at Santa Cruz) as well as a revised critical bibliography."The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful...all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all mod