Sunday, May 18, 2008

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa



(Mexican-American lesbian feminist scholar and activist, 1942–2004). In her theoretical works, Anzaldúa calls for a "new mestiza," a term she introduced to American postcolonial feminist discourse that refers to an individual's awareness of her own hybrid identities, producing "new angles of vision" that may be used to challenge binary thinking in the Western world. She is the author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

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