Neplanteros em Borderlands: a narrativa chicana de Gloria Anzaldúa

Abstract

As it is recognized by theories and literary, cultural and comparative critics, in the contemporaneity, the Western world and particularly for the reflection in Latin American subcontinent, the epistemic approach is given as a matrix of expressions such as: “another orilha”, “fronteriza”, “borderlands”, by which literary workers and writers demonstrate that their tasks represent a compromise to the place, locus of enunciation, whose reading reverberates in a growing interest by the relationship between knowledge and commitment. From this perspective, this theses aims to reflect on the title Borderlands / La Frontera: the new mestiza (1987), by the writer Gloria Anzaldúa, representative corpus of Chicano literature, whose the own title of the narrative, “Borderlands”, constitutes a strong paradigm – theoretical and critical – to our intervention in literary speeches originated from margins and / or peripheral places. From this angle, by circumscribing the Borderlands narrative between the borders of Mexico-United States, Gloria Anzaldúa proposes the “fronteriza” way, the other margin, as a condition of her own voice, identity and belonging, an “other” margin of knowledge and provocative of a reflexive practice based on the literary decentralization and a proper epistemology to Latin American subcontinent, and the postcolonial literatures. Hence, the critical works of Zulma Palermo, Walter Mignolo, Homi Bhabha, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Edgar Nolasco, among others, serve as a theoretical referential for analysis.