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Article: Violence in the Borderlands: crossing to the home space in the novels of Ana Castillo.
- Article from:
- Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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To survive the Borderlands
You must live sin fronteras,
be a crossroads.
Gloria Anzaldua
The characters in Ana Castillo's novels inhabit borderlands. Mixed in identity, nationality, race, and language, these characters signify the border culture between the United States and Mexico that is embodied in the Spanish and Indigenous mezcla that resulted from the colonization of the "New World." Gloria Anzaldua defines a borderland as "a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary .... in a constant state of transition," and she argues that within this borderland, the "prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants." In the ...