Borderlands/La Frontera

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The book, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua is considered a semi-autograph. Anzaldua uses some of her stories to explain her points which are included in the first part of the book. However, she also uses poems and prose as sources which are located in the second part of the book. Anzaldua uses her stories, poems and prose to explain the division among Mexican cultures or language, gender and sexual orientation. Throughout the book the concept of the Mexican women, Chicana illustrates how are seen as something inferior and even the gay community. For example, Anzaldua mentions how la mujer indocumentada has it worse of what a man would have had crossing the border. It happens since women are seen as objects that

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