![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anzaldúa defines these people both geographically, as the inhabitants of the U.S.-Mexican border, but also more figuratively, as any people living in a constant state of precarious transition, such as queer people, troublemakers, or mixed-race people. A “borderland” is the emotional impact that unnatural boundary has on the people who live along the border. Yet she also remembers the sea just beyond the fence, the sea which defied national borders by extending without break from one country to the next.Īnzaldúa goes on to discuss the border as a location defined by the meeting of two artificially defined worlds. Anzaldúa remembers her own childhood spent at the barbed-wire fence delineating the United States from Mexico, a fence which she describes as like a wound across both the body of America, and her own body. The chapter begins by comparing the border to the sometimes-peaceful, sometimes-violent collision of earth and ocean. In Chapter 1, “The Homeland, Aztlán,” Anzaldúa writes a history of what is today the U.S.-Mexican border, while also introducing the reader to her own personal history. ![]()
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