A review by allisonjpmiller
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Fourth Edition by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

4.0

Never have I been more frustrated by the fact that I can only read patchwork phrases and individual words in Spanish! I so wish I were fluent so I could've read this entire book instead of only really digesting the parts in English. But what I was able to absorb was totally visceral and transfixing. I'm especially fascinated by how mestiza consciousness, the way Anzaldúa describes it, functions much like entropy in an open system—at least, that's the metaphor that kept coming into play for me while reading: breaking paradigms and worldviews and identities down to their essential parts and using those parts to create something new. Immediately bought [b:Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality|23719169|Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality|Gloria E. Anzaldúa|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429743093l/23719169._SX50_.jpg|43328769] because I want to dig deeper into some of these ideas.