Constructing Mestiza Consciousness: Gloria Anzaldúa's Literary Techniques in Borderlands/La Frontera - The New Mestiza

Abstract

This essay explores discursive and literary techniques employed in Anzaldúa's masterpiece "Borderlands" and the ways the author employs them in the process of constructing her multifaceted politics of identity.

Keywords

• Chicana literature
• mestiza consciousness
• literary theory
• feminism
• identity politics