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Listen "Online Reading Session #6 Gloria Anzaldúa "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza", introduced by Mayra Bottaro"
Episode Synopsis
In this session, Mayra Bottaro gave an introductory presentation of the book "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" by Gloria Anzaldúa, a publication that addresses topics such as Chicano culture, identity, race, gender and colonialism.
Abstract of the book:
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. "Borderlands/La Frontera" remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. The book is divided into two parts. The first, "Crossing Borders", is written mostly in prose, and moves between memoir and critical theory, interspersed occasionally with poetry and quotations from other thinkers, poets, and singers. Anzaldúa also switches between Spanish and English, and between more casual and "academic" ways of writing. The second part, "Un Agitado Viento/Ehécatl, The Wind", is entirely poetry.
MAYRA BOTTARO received her PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley. She is assistant Professor at the University of Oregon and currently co-directs the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Her book "Chronopolitics. New Media, Periodicity and Seriality in the Hispanic Atlantic, 1750-1880" (forthcoming in 2021) examines the links between material culture, media, and temporality and identifies a series of changes in the understanding of time and the notion of futurity, showing how the aesthetics of seriality became embedded within epistemological changes. She is currently working on her second monograph, "Scrambled Messages: Telegraphic Poetics and the New Atlantic Language", at the intersection of materialities of new media, theories of language, poetics and artistic experimental practices, and on a Digital Humanities project "Archivo Organizado y Centralizado de Rubén Darío" at Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), Argentina.
Introduction, moderation and audio editing: Katerina Valdivia Bruch
We would like to thank the participants for their questions and Mayra Bottaro for her inspiring introduction on Anzaldúa's book.
The online reading session took place on 29 October 2020.
Abstract of the book:
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. "Borderlands/La Frontera" remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. The book is divided into two parts. The first, "Crossing Borders", is written mostly in prose, and moves between memoir and critical theory, interspersed occasionally with poetry and quotations from other thinkers, poets, and singers. Anzaldúa also switches between Spanish and English, and between more casual and "academic" ways of writing. The second part, "Un Agitado Viento/Ehécatl, The Wind", is entirely poetry.
MAYRA BOTTARO received her PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley. She is assistant Professor at the University of Oregon and currently co-directs the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Her book "Chronopolitics. New Media, Periodicity and Seriality in the Hispanic Atlantic, 1750-1880" (forthcoming in 2021) examines the links between material culture, media, and temporality and identifies a series of changes in the understanding of time and the notion of futurity, showing how the aesthetics of seriality became embedded within epistemological changes. She is currently working on her second monograph, "Scrambled Messages: Telegraphic Poetics and the New Atlantic Language", at the intersection of materialities of new media, theories of language, poetics and artistic experimental practices, and on a Digital Humanities project "Archivo Organizado y Centralizado de Rubén Darío" at Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), Argentina.
Introduction, moderation and audio editing: Katerina Valdivia Bruch
We would like to thank the participants for their questions and Mayra Bottaro for her inspiring introduction on Anzaldúa's book.
The online reading session took place on 29 October 2020.
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