Bodily encounters: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera

Gloria Anzaldúa’s polymorphous text suggests a controversial and contradictory locus of bodily encounters, as the above quotes exemplify: on the one hand, it is, for her, a place which is necessarily defined by the metaphor of the crossroads as a positive and regenerating site that demolishes front...

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Main Author: Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2000-07-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/8257