Resistance in Writing: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/ La Frontera

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  • Juan R. Buriel University of California (Irving)

Abstract

In Borderlands/La Frontera Anzaldúa discloses an unassuming, yet ever so fundamental, dimension of the history of Chicano resistance. This dimension of Chicano resistance is the resistance that is inherent to the very writing1 ofChicano texts, the resistance that plagues the psyche o f the Chicano writer when producing texts. In the sixth chapter of Borderlands/La Frontera, the chapter entitled " Tlilli, Tlapalli/The Path of the Red and Black Ink," Anzaldua, in effect, has "written o f writing" (Derrida, 103). In this chapter she has taken her own writing as an object of analysis.

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