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On Borderlands/La Frontera: An Interpretive Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

María Lugones
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Abstract

Borderlands/La Frontera deads with the psychology of resistance to oppression. The possibility of resistance is revealed by perceiving the self in the process of being oppressed as another face of the self in the process of resisting oppression. The new mestiza consciousness is bom from this interplay between oppression and resistance. Resistance is understood as social, collective activity, by adding to Anzaldúa's theory the distinction between the act and the process of resistance.

Type
LESBIAN CREATIVITY
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 31 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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