{"id":141,"date":"2018-02-16T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=141"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:05:23","slug":"week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last few lines of Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s poem suggest that living in the space that she calls \u201cthe Borderlands\u201d requires being able to walk freely between the identities that cross or border one another. As the speaker in \u201cTo Live in the Borderlands\u201d provides several examples of how identities and languages can cause conflict among one another, they also maintain that it is necessary to allow these elements to converge. By incorporating Spanish into her poem, Anzald\u00faa demonstrates her ability to fluidly move between cultures and confront what results from these two languages meeting in her poem, fully embodying her statement that living the Borderlands requires one to \u201cbe a crossroads.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The use of Spanish interwoven through English is reminiscent of \u201cSpanglish\u201d and directly addresses people who are bilingual in English and Spanish, effectively cutting off those who do not speak Spanish from fully understanding the poem. Although a monolingual English speaker could look up the meaning of the words, this demands the non-Spanish speaking reader to work to be at the same level of understanding as readers who are bilingual. The use and italicization of the Spanish words in this poem also serve to highlight the weight they hold in the poem. While I was reading this work, I thought of the poem <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshadejournal.com\/single-post\/2016\/09\/28\/THE-SPACE-BETWEEN-SKIN-IS-CALLED-A-WOUND-by-Julian-Randall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Space Between Skin is Called a Wound,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which describes the experience of someone who lives between two cultures but is unable to move between them with the same fluidity that Anzald\u00faa does because they are not a speaker of two languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p>Gloria Anzald\u00faa, \u201cTo Live In the Borderlands Means You,\u201d in Borderlands\/La Frontera:\u00a0The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987), 194-195.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few lines of Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s poem suggest that living in the space that she calls \u201cthe Borderlands\u201d requires being able to walk freely between the identities that cross or border one another. As the speaker in \u201cTo Live in the Borderlands\u201d provides several examples of how identities and languages can cause conflict among one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}