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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Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2000-07-01
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Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
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Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/8257 |