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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Anzaldua"”.
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
… that are socially produced. It utilizes Gloria Anzaldua's theoretical framework of Borderlands theory as a set of processes that seek to attain the de-colonization of the inner self. The historical and spatial dynamics of the geographical border between Mexico and United States, largely shaped …
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Borders, space, and liminality in Dorothy West's The living is easy and Rudolf Fisher's The walls of Jericho
… color, and regionality. Latina writer Gloria Anzaldua has establishes theory addressing the effect of spatial, psychological and cultural borders in Borderlands: La Frontera. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's observations of tribal rites of passages are accepted patterns of human social …
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"I am from Epifania and Tomas": an autoethnography and bi-literacy narrative of a Mexican American orchard workers' daughter
… Mexican Americans, Richard Rodriguez and Gloria Anzaldua, is offered by the author who connects her own experiences growing up bilingually and biculturally in the United States with their experiences. She also reviews literature about the role of the bi-literacy narrative and value of …
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
… Bridge Called My Back</em> edited by Gloria Anzaldua and Cherie Moraga. I blend this method and theory with intersectional feminist approaches to disability studies, best exemplified by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and, the phenomenological study of emotions articulated by Sara Ahmed. In doing …
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Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance
… bridged with Chicana feminist theories of Gloria Anzaldua, theories of <em>Nepantla</em>, <em>New Tribalism</em>, <em>Spritual Activism</em>, and the<em> Coyolxauhqui Imperative</em>, are bridged to. The bridging of these concepts heeds the calls by Chicana feminists to create a more inclusive …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… of English for those in public schools. Like Anzaldua and other successful Mexican American scholars, the subject was highly motivated to be educated and to educate her children despite the fact that her own mother died young, leaving her to be raised under difficult conditions.</p>
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Breaking Borders: Women of Mexican Heritage in Douglas, Arizona
… nation. Influenced by Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldua, I seek to recover history, and what she refers to as la facultad, by relying on the words of the women and their families to offer answers and insight. Despite the challenges of living in the borderlands in a time of limited access to …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… My project focuses on Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, and Alice Walker along with four local activist-writers in Eastern North Carolina, examining connections between identity and writing as a way to better understand genre-fluid rhetorical practices. The organization models genre fluidity by …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… Turner, Mary Douglas, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhaba and others to an examination of the subversive cultural formations that evolve through the boundary dissolution of colonization. Chapter two considers Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks in which the decimation of the Anishinabe …
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Writing the self: feminist experiment and cultural identity
… Gladman, Claudia Rankine, Juliana Spahr, Gloria Anzaldua, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. These writers, to different degrees, use a variety of formal strategies and problematize narrative autobiographical writing to simultaneously focus on language as instrumental to subjectivity and to represent …
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"They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds." "Trataron de Enterrarnos, Pero No Sabían Que Éramos Semillas" - The Mexican American/Raza Studies Political and Legal Struggle: A Content Analysis
… discipline of Chicana/o Studies (Acuña, 2011; Anzaldua, 1987; Muñoz, 2007; Pérez, 1999; Soldatenko, 2009). This temporal contextualization of the review of the literature provides a clear understanding of the MAS political and legal struggle, the focus of this study. The implications of this …
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The Not-So-Silent Period: Testimonios of Recently Arrived Latinx Students
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore and amplify the experiences of recently arrived Latinx<sup>1</sup> students as interpreted through their <em>testimonios</em> in educational borderlands. Through increasingly xenophobic discourses around immigrants and their children (Pérez Huber, 2015), …
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UTILIZING GLORIA ANZALDUA’S CONOCIMIENTO TO SURVIVE: UNDERSTANDING HOW WOMEN FACULTY OF COLOR OVERCOME RACIAL BIAS & DISCRIMINATION IN ACADEMIA
… in San Diego County. Utilizing Gloria Anzaldua’s theory of conocimiento as an analytical tool, testimonios unraveled how faculty navigated their professoriate careers, negotiated encounters with systemic racism, racial bias, and discrimination after tenure, and lived in a constant state …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
<p>The Communal “I” in American autobiography emerges as an aesthetic response to the pressure of using “the master’s tools” to write from a community on the margins to disclose identity in the conflicts of exclusion and belonging. In this case “the master’s tools” to refer to several distinct …