On Borderlands/La Frontera: An Interpretive Essay
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 7 (4) , 31-37
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00715.x
Abstract
Borderlands/La Frontera deads with the psychology of resistance to oppression. The possibility of resistance is revealed by perceiving the self in the process of being oppressed as another face of the self in the process of resisting oppression. The new mestiza consciousness is bom from this interplay between oppression and resistance. Resistance is understood as social, collective activity, by adding to Anzaldúa's theory the distinction between the act and the process of resistance.Keywords
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