A review by dreamereternal
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective

3.75

It's astounding and a little heartbreaking how much even some 30 something years on how Anzaldua's combination of prose, poetry, theory and personal narrative still resonate so much today. There is plenty that more intelligent and immersed scholars and activist have said about this work that are probably worth reading, but for my own part I'm just really glad I had the chance to read the work in full and mull a bit over it. I'm always learning and growing and having this foundation beyond excerpts picked to support or use for class work, but the chance to engage with her writing on my own terms and to my own understanding is something I feel will be transformative down the line. Really thankful that this work exists and is still so integral to Chicana literature as a whole.