Borderlands And La Frontera Summary
Laura Carpenter
EH 422
4 November 2015
Anzaldua, Gloria. “Borderlands/La Frontera.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 1017- 1030. Print. Through accounts of her own life experiences, Anzaldua creates an analogy with the Mexican/American border as it relates to the acceptance of opposing groups. She seeks to lead the oppressors to reexamine their perspectives of those whom they oppress. In doing so, Anzaldua recalls a meeting with conservative peers at the college where she taught. In consideration of the motivations behind our fears of breaking outside of the social constraints, “[m]ost of us unconsciously believe that if we reveal this unacceptable aspect of the self
EH 422
4 November 2015
Anzaldua, Gloria. “Borderlands/La Frontera.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 1017- 1030. Print. Through accounts of her own life experiences, Anzaldua creates an analogy with the Mexican/American border as it relates to the acceptance of opposing groups. She seeks to lead the oppressors to reexamine their perspectives of those whom they oppress. In doing so, Anzaldua recalls a meeting with conservative peers at the college where she taught. In consideration of the motivations behind our fears of breaking outside of the social constraints, “[m]ost of us unconsciously believe that if we reveal this unacceptable aspect of the self