Gloria E. Anzalda

Gloria E. Anzalda is a crucial figure in contemporary border and womens studies. When in 1987 she published her groundbreaking book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, she became one of the most often quoted writers of the USMexico border, but she remains relatively little known outside Americas. In one of the first monographs written on her work, Grana Zygado introduces Anzaldas work and outlines her feminist revisionist thinking to new audiences, especially in Europe. The author defines these borderlands as areas where numerous systems of power, exploitation, and oppression intersect capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and white mans supremacy. She also concentrates on the innovative philosophy of womens writing from the body that Anzalda has propagated and on her formative role in the women of color feminism. Zygado also works to expand Anzaldas borderland thinking by applying it to the recent issues related to migration crisis and border problems in the European Union namely the contradictory treatment of refugees at the Polish eastern border. Gloria E. Anzalda is situated at the intersection of various disciplines, in particular, American cultural studies, feminist criticism, and Latin American postcolonial studies, and is a valuable source of knowledge about Anzaldas ideas for undergraduate and graduate students.