Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2015v20n2p181Neste artigo, analiso as maneiras com as quais Gloria Anzaldúa, em Borderlands: La Frontera (2007), negocia a ideia da fronteira como tendo dimensões discursivas e materiais. Ao criar a consciência da nova mestiza a partir da zona de fronteira, que é o espaço afetado pela linha fronteiriça, Anzaldúa desenvolve conceitos e ideias que podem ser relacionados às articulações de Donna Haraway, com sua teoria do ciborgue; e de Karen Barad, com sua teoria de uma ontologia de agenciamento realista, no sentido de que Anzaldúa se engaja criativamente com partes contraditórias de sua identidade, de forma ciborguiana; e enxerga a fronteira como ao mesmo tempo limitante e empoderadora, como produzindo efeitos discursivos e materiais como constitutivos um do outro. Anzaldúa discorre sobre esses efeitos e demonstra como os aplica na fabricação de uma nova consciência, a da nova mestiza. Neste trabalho, então, exploro estes conceitos a partir de uma leitura que identifica, no trabalho de Anzaldúa, pontos em comum com e complementares às teorias de Haraway e Barad.
Highlights
In the preface to the first edition of Borderlands: La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa (2007) describes the borderlands, saying that they are “physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals181 Anu
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. In this piece I attempt to address the ways in which Gloria Anzaldúa, in Borderlands: La Frontera (2007), negotiates the idea of the border as having both discursive and material dimensions
In creating a new mestiza consciousness from the borderland, which is the space that is affected by the borderline, Anzaldúa develops concepts and ideas that can be linked to Donna Haraway’s articulation of the cyborg and to Karen Barad’s theory of an agential realist ontology in the sense that Anzaldúa engages creatively with contradicting parts of her identity in a cyborgian fashion, and sees the enactment of borders as both limiting and empowering, as having emotional and material effects
Summary
In the preface to the first edition of Borderlands: La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa (2007) describes the borderlands, saying that they are “physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals. Be they geopolitical, economic or emotional, produce emotional and material effects in the sense that they limit one’s possibilities within the cultures at play In this piece I am interested in exploring how the border makes itself physically present in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands, how the discursive meets matter, and to do so I will resort to Karen Barad’s articulation on matter as active and to Donna Haraway’s theory of the cyborg to argue that Anzaldúa is herself a cyborg writer, as she devises technologies of engagement with both the Mexican and the American side of her, perhaps because she understands that there is no one pure identity after all: there is no one pure object (be it a subject, an idea, an identity, a representation, even matter) unaffected by its surroundings. It is a way of balancing, of mitigating duality” (ANZALDÚA, 2007, p. 41), she puts it
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