{"id":143,"date":"2018-02-18T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=143"},"modified":"2018-02-18T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T18:18:55","slug":"yd-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/yd-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"YD Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <em>To Live in the Borderlands<\/em>, Gloria Anzaldua, is of mixed race as she tells us in second and third stanza of the poem. The poem continues to discuss how torn she is living in the \u201cborderlands\u201d \u201ccaught in the crossfire between camps.\u201d The author cannot choose a side as she doesn\u2019t fit in with any specific one as seen in this stanza:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">To live in the Borderlands means knowing that the<em>\u00a0india<\/em>\u00a0in you, betrayed for 500 years,<br \/>\nis no longer speaking to you,<br \/>\nthe\u00a0<em>mexicanas<\/em>\u00a0call you\u00a0<em>rajetas<\/em>, that denying the Anglo inside you<br \/>\nis as bad as having denied the Indian or Black;<\/p>\n<p>The poem switches between English and Spanish which is a linguistic representation of the fact that she is stuck between cultures and doesn\u2019t fit in entirely with any. In other words, to live in the borderlands is to not have a voice and to not fit in with any specific culture. That is why the last stanza of the poem reads: \u201cTo survive the borderlands \/ you must live <em>sin fronteras<\/em> \/ be a crossroads.\u201d In English, \u201csin fronteras\u201d translates to \u201cwithout borders.\u201d The author is implying that to survive, you have to be a bridge between cultures and to help people from different cultures and ethnicities understand each other.<\/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 author of To Live in the Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldua, is of mixed race as she tells us in second and third stanza of the poem. The poem continues to discuss how torn she is living in the \u201cborderlands\u201d \u201ccaught in the crossfire between camps.\u201d The author cannot choose a side as she doesn\u2019t fit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/yd-week-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YD Week 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}