{"id":149,"date":"2018-02-19T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:54:25","slug":"bl-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"BL Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s poem, \u201cTo Live in the Borderlands,\u201d illustrates the conflicting identity of those living in borderlands.\u00a0 In these regions, there is a great deal of mixing of different cultures, races and political views.\u00a0 This poem seems to focus on displaying these differences and the interplay of these differences on the borderland people\u2019s identities.\u00a0 The transitions between English and Spanish is indicative of this interaction of cultures and races. These transitions speak to tell us that the poet and border people have almost this dual sense of identity. They move between languages, cultures and places.\u00a0 Switching between these two languages also serves to hit home with those that are currently living in the Borderlands. It is indicative of their lives and the interconnection of languages and cultures. Borders are not just physical divides between places as they can exist inside of us. They can be emotional borders, psychological and spiritual borders.\u00a0 All these borders shape who these people are as individuals and as a society. To survive living in such a place as the \u201cBorderlands,\u201d Anzald\u00faa suggests that people fight the status quo but that in do so \u201cyou must live <em>sin fronteras<\/em>\/ be a crossroads.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 From this last stanza, Anzald\u00faa is telling her readers to live without borders and be a crossroads.\u00a0 In other words, you must fight helplessness, adapt to your situation and finally accept your dual identity.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/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>Gloria Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s poem, \u201cTo Live in the Borderlands,\u201d illustrates the conflicting identity of those living in borderlands.\u00a0 In these regions, there is a great deal of mixing of different cultures, races and political views.\u00a0 This poem seems to focus on displaying these differences and the interplay of these differences on the borderland people\u2019s identities.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BL Week 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}