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In one of the first monographs written on her work, Gräyna Zygad¿o introduces Gloria E. Anzaldúa's work and outlines her feminist revisionist thinking, discussing borderlands as areas where numerous systems of power, exploitation, and oppression intersect - capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and white man's supremacy.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: "I put myself in the words I write"
Chapter 1. "I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back" – Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work
Chapter 2. "Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks" – Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories and ideas
Chapter 3. "Where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds" – Borderlands theory According to Gloria Anzaldúa
Chapter 4. "I usually learn the most when I teach" – Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa at the Polish University to the international students
Conclusion. "Who am I a poor Chicanita, from the sticks, to think I could write" – Gloria Anzaldúa’s legacy
References
Annex
About the author
Grażyna Zygadło is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Mass Media and an affiliate in the Women’s Studies Center at the University of Lodz. Her major research areas include the marginalization of minorities in the US, specifically Latinx diaspora; women of colors feminism and literature; postcoloniality; the existence of borderland territories; and the relations between knowledge and power. She was a guest lecturer at the universities in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and Florida International University in Miami. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) and HispaUSA Asociación de estudios sobre la población de origen hispano en EEUU.
Summary
In one of the first monographs written on her work, Grazyna Zygadlo introduces Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s work and outlines her feminist revisionist thinking, discussing borderlands as areas where numerous systems of power, exploitation, and oppression intersect - capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and white man’s supremacy.
