Writing and Life in Gloria Anzaldúa

Writing and Life in Gloria Anzaldúa

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i35.795

Abstract

In this article, our main objective is to elucidate how Gloria Anzaldúa's writing can be studied, by attending to her best known work: Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, as a weaving of life. It will be this text, in its third edition (2007), in which we work fundamentally to understand Gloria Anzaldúa's writing, and also to understand why it took her so long to finish her doctoral thesis. We believe that the root of such a delay was due to the fact that, for her, writing represented an action whose meaning came from assimilating everything she had experienced. An endearing writing, then, where the guts and the living tissue of body made viable the existence of a living and organic writing, rather than an intellectual and fully organized one.

Author Biography

Jorge Martín Gómez Bocanegra, Universidad de Guadalajara

Es doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Córdoba, España. Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Sus líneas de investigación son: Problemáticas del mundo globalizado en textos narrativos (seis años); y la muerte en la novela latinoamericana (inicialmente). Ha publicado: “En las fronteras de un cuento de Clarice Lispector”, en Revista Sincronía de la Universidad de Guadalajara (año 27, no, 83, enero-junio de 2023); Entre el espejo y las sombras (UdG, 2021), y Problemáticas del mundo globalizado en seis novelas (UdG, 2018).

Published

2025-01-01

How to Cite

Gómez Bocanegra, J. M. (2025). Writing and Life in Gloria Anzaldúa: Writing and Life in Gloria Anzaldúa. Valenciana, 18(35), 79–98. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i35.795