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Gloria Anzaldua - La Frontera / Borderlands (1987) - Coggle Diagram
Gloria Anzaldua - La Frontera / Borderlands (1987)
key terms to define
la mestiza consciousness
tolerance for ambiguity: "the new mestiza copes by developing a tolerance for contradictions, a tolerance for ambiguity" (101) "Not only does she sustain contradictions, she turns the ambivalence into something else" (101)
"she learns to juggle cultures" (101)
She learns to be creative in the uncomfortable environment?
"did not split the artistic from the functional, the sacred from the secular, art from the everyday life" (88). this is about colonizing and archiving
calling out the practices of museum making/artefact housing--it's all colonialism and white supremacy (90)
gotta get rid of this dualistic thinking
Honestly all of page 100 - "cradled in one culture, sandwiched between two cultures, straddling all three cultures and their value systems" (100)
un choque
--a cultural collision" (100)
some of the values might be rooted in gender binaries, the performance of
machismo
"But it is not enough to stand on the opposite river bank, shouting questions, challenging patriarchal, white conventions. A counterstance locks one into a duel of oppressor and oppressed; locked in mortal combat, like the cop and the criminal, both are reduced to a common denominator of violence" (100) this model produces violence for Anzaldua;
"both shores at at once and, see through the serpent and eagle eyes" (100--1) ; staking out a new way of thinking and being and living against binaries and competing dualisms
Borderlands
What is the problem Anzaldua is trying to think through?
there's a big problem with being forced into ONE culture or having to choose
Growing up with two or more cultures and two or more languages is hard, and we need a framework for how to inhabit that hard place between cultture
"Talk Tex-Mex with a Brooklyn accent" (216)
finding theory: oh man, it's good to read someone you identify with and speaks some truth to your feelings; makes you feel like you're not alone
the use of poetry
the use of hope and deceptively simply claims of thinking outside of dualisms
It allows the appreciation of all cultures and for me (being born in Mexico and being raised in America) to be able to learn and appreciate my indigenous and Spanish backgroun
for heritage speakers, this sort of feels like childhood and growing up; Anzaldua starts with queer multilingual childhood
it also invites an active translator role and actively get into the text with
what happens when you read it aloud with a loved one!