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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.
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.
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.
The essay explores Anzaldúa's identity as a white/mestiza Tejana from a formerly affluent, sixth-generation Texan family. She explores the racism, colorism, sexism, heteronormativity, and classism of her parents and grandparents, who scorned her for being too dark-skinned and who identified with whiteness and Americanness rather than with Mexican, Indigenous, and Black people.
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The story is a fictionalized account of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's father dying while she was a child, [2] though Anzaldúa said it was "straight autobiography" and "as close to the truth as I get". [3] The narrator is a young girl named Prieta (though her precise age is never stated), [4] and Anzaldúa writes the story in a close, personal fashion. [5]
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