FOR GLORIA ANZALDUA, 1942-2004 ...

FOR GLORIA ANZALDUA, 1942-2004

Since the Mexican-American War in 1848 in which Mexico wasted half of its territory to what is today the Southwestern United States, the conceptions of territory, space, and nation have sustained a series of changes. For Chicana/o cultural critics, the border paradigm has defined the boundaries of writing and experience, and to a certain station has signaled a major contribution to American Studies. In locating history and power in the liminality of the border, and in showing the latter as part of an important American paradigm, Chicana/o cultural