Decolonialism And Chicana Feminist Epistemology In Borderlands/La Frontera

In Borderlands/La Frontera,Chicana feminist writer Gloria Anzaldua outlines the Chicana Feminist Epistemology focusing on the concept of decolonization.This literary work has mostly been analyzed from the perspective of the postmodern feminist studies and in the framework of postcolonial studies.In this thesis,the author situates Borderlands/La Frontera in the context of Chicana political movement and analyze it from a Latin American decolonial perspective.Anzaldua's borderland is a concrete and fictious space,in which race,gender,language,personal and communal histories intersect.As a victim of a triple process of colonialism(the Spanish,the Anglo-Saxon,and,subsequently the US colonialism),Anzaldua approaches decolonization from a borderland space of political enunciation in which multiple identities cohabitate and political positioning transforms regarding a colonial relationship of domination.For Anzaldua,decolonization through language and writing is a way of emancipation,so she manages to develop decolonial theories that serve to understand in depth the colonial experience.This thesis seeks to reveal and to analyze the decolonial theories encapsulates in this text,which explain the violent colonial process to which the native peoples of the American continent were subjected and also explicate the origin and the process of racism suffered by the Chicano community.Borderlands is a feminist theoretical treatise that brings up a new account of categories to redefine the traditional concepts of racism,history,territory,and gender.Anzaldua's feminist decolonial epistemology functions as the theoretical framework to explain the methods of oppression of the capitalist patriarchal system that is reflected in the beliefs and customs of the Chicano community,and serve as an important theoretical weapon in their roads to freedom and liberation.