This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo...This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo.In both works,there is an attempt to return to the indigenous tradition as a way of opposing Western male domination.Both writers,belonging to historically marginalized social groups and finding themselves in the middle of two cultures,take elements from precolonial cultures in their texts to propose a decolonized new way of understanding the world.展开更多
文摘This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo.In both works,there is an attempt to return to the indigenous tradition as a way of opposing Western male domination.Both writers,belonging to historically marginalized social groups and finding themselves in the middle of two cultures,take elements from precolonial cultures in their texts to propose a decolonized new way of understanding the world.
