{"id":18304,"date":"2011-11-19T03:19:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T03:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18304"},"modified":"2011-11-19T03:19:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T03:19:06","slug":"exploring-gloria-anzaldua%e2%80%99s-methodology-in-borderlandsla-frontera%e2%80%94the-new-mestiza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18304","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Methodology in Borderlands\/La Frontera\u2014The New Mestiza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcir.com\/Articles%20IV%20Special\/JorgeCapetillo-FM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Methodology in Borderlands\/La Frontera\u2014The New Mestiza<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcir.com\/JournalIVSpecialSummer06.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume IV, Special Issue, Summer 2006<\/a><br \/>\npages 87-94<br \/>\nISSN: 1540-5699<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umb.edu\/academics\/cla\/faculty\/jorge_capetillo_ponce\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Capetillo-Ponce<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Massachusetts, Boston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3778\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands\/La Frontera\u2014The New Mestiza<\/a><\/em> does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows inclination of interest, as opposed to working at achieving systematization. Not only does she shift continually from analysis to meditation, and refuse to recognize disciplinary barriers, but she speaks poetically even when dealing with cultural, political, and social issues. Indeed her method, like Simmel\u2019s, is more akin to \u201cstyle\u201d in art than it is to \u201canalysis\u201d or \u201cinquiry\u201d in the social sciences. A critic proclaims her\/his own incompetence, however, if the mere fact that a text has a certain interdisciplinary quality scares him\/her away from her\/his rightful task of elucidating its various historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological, and literary elements. In this article, I herewith take up that pleasant task, via this brief sketch pointing us toward a deeper comprehension of Anzald\u00faa\u2019s <em>Borderlands<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcir.com\/Articles%20IV%20Special\/JorgeCapetillo-FM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Methodology in Borderlands\/La Frontera\u2014The New Mestiza Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge Volume IV, Special Issue, Summer 2006 pages 87-94 ISSN: 1540-5699 Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Boston Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Borderlands\/La Frontera\u2014The New Mestiza does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,25],"tags":[1474,8323,8253],"class_list":["post-18304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-gloria-anzaldua","tag-human-architecture-journal-of-the-sociology-of-self-knowledge","tag-jorge-capetillo-ponce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}