\u201cTo Live in the Borderlands\u201d by Gloria Anzaldua discusses issues in the borderlands between America and Mexico in order to bring up conflicts between identities and facets of a person within an individual. The poem is written in two different languages\u2014Spanish and English\u2014which show that duality has clearly influenced the author\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
In order to fully understand the poem, one must understand both the English and Spanish words. I know how to understand the transitions between the two languages because I took an undergraduate course in Spanish. Using both languages may be the author\u2019s way of showing the mingling of two cultures.<\/p>\n
In the last stanza of the poem, Anzaldua writes, \u201cTo survive the Borderlands\/you must live sin fronteras\/be a crossroads\u201d (Anzaldua, 3). \u201cSin fronteras\u201d means to live without borders.\u00a0 I understand this last stanza to mean that people in the borderlands must conform and assimilate into both cultures. She describes people of the borderlands to have no sense of belonging because they are torn between two cultures, and have\u00a0a new culture that has formed in the borderlands.<\/p>\n
-CB<\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
Anzaldua, G. “To Live in the Borderlands.”\u00a0Borderlands-La Frontera.<\/em>\u00a0Aunt Lute Books,\u00a0<\/em>1987, pp. 194-195.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.revistascisan.unam.mx\/Voices\/pdfs \/7422.pdf<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cTo Live in the Borderlands\u201d by Gloria Anzaldua discusses issues in the borderlands between America and Mexico in order to bring up conflicts between identities and facets of a person within an individual. The poem is written in two different languages\u2014Spanish and English\u2014which show that duality has clearly influenced the author\u2019s life. In order to … <\/p>\n