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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory.She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa in 1990. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a prolific Chicana writer of prose, fiction, and poetry. [1] After moving from her native Texas to California in 1977, she exclusively focused on her writing, [2] publishing dozens of pieces of writing before her death. [3] She left behind several manuscripts in progress when she ...
The interest in black feminism was on the rise in the 1970s, through the writings of Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others. [3]: 87 In 1981, the anthology This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, was published and But Some of Us Are Brave was published the following year.
Born in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas on September 26, 1942, [11] Gloria Anzaldúa grew up on a ranch where her parents worked as farmers. [1] In an interview with Professor of Literature Ann E. Reuman, Anzaldúa expresses that her ethnic background and childhood experiences in a southern Texas farming culture both heavily influenced her work in Borderlands.
For Anzaldúa, writing books for children was an important step of activism because children would effect necessary cultural and social transformations." [ 3 ] Anzaldúa is well known for her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza in which she describes the effects of the border on every aspect of mestizo life ...
Anzaldua or Anzaldúa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), American scholar of feminism; Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldúa (1958–2007), Mexican politician; Leraldo Anzaldua (born 1975), American voice actor
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New tribalism is a theory by queer Chicana feminist Gloria E. Anzaldúa to disrupt the matrix of imposed identity categories that the hegemonic culture imposes on people in order to maintain its power and authority.