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(2016) (Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Genre matters
tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "the law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera
Shelley Garcia
pp. 3-20
"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.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_1
Full citation:
Garcia, S. (2016)., Genre matters: tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "the law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera, in C. Herrera & L. M. Mercado-López (eds.), (Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-20.
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