Genre matters

tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "the law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera

Shelley García

pp. 3-20

in: Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López (eds), (Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

"Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera." Shelley García, Biola University. This chapter argues for the need to make genre a part of any discussion of Chicana writing, and it does so by exploring perhaps the most iconic text in the field, Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques