Through the use of poetics, Anzaldua offers a queer perspective of how white America has disrupted the narrative for the people living in the area around the border. However, throughout the book there is a heavy use of Spanish narration and poetry. This is a clear reflection and example of how the borderland area has affected her. She is better able to express her thoughts and ideas in both languages. The book deals with Anzaldua coming to terms with herself, and realizing how intersectional her identity really is. Although these are Anzaldua’s experiences, they can be placed in a larger scale, so that other people in the same area can relate.
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Feminism plays a huge role in the discussion of the Gay Latinx identity. Joteria scholarship has developed as a result of feminist studies. The only difference is that this type of feminism deals with the Latinx community. Gloria Anzaldua is a prominent name in Joteria scholarship and has allowed people to look at sexuality and identity in a different light. Her book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1978), deals with her struggles to develop her identity while living in the Borderland area which was between Mexico and the southern part of the United States. This is the emotional/identity/social area between the United States and Mexico, an area where two cultures sometimes blend and other times clash. In Anzaldua’s borderland identity, she is a queer Latina and her experiences are not only shaped her Mexican culture but also by the American culture.
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