3) In her introduction to Borderlands/La Frontera and her essay chapter How to Tame a Wild
Tongue Gloria Anzalda introduces language as a form of resistance to assimilation,
highlighting the role of multiple intersecting discursive registers of English and Spanish that
have come to shape her as a writer and thinker. How do registers of oral Spanish and English
intersect with cultural memory, identity, knowledge, and power? What role do non-linguistic
sensations such as images of the natural landscape, the body, food, and song play in shaping her
sense of self and the form in which she writes the text? How do borderlands figure as a
place/space as well as a mode of theorizing and writing in the text?
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