Gloria E. Anzaldaua: Feminist Body Writing and Borderlands

In one of the first monographs written on her work, Grażyna Zygadlo introduces Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s work and outlines her feminist revisionist thinking, discussing borderlands as areas where numerous systems of power, exploitation, and oppression intersect - capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and white man’s supremacy.

Grażyna Zygadlo is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Mass Media and an affiliate in the Women’s Studies Center at the University of Lodz. Her major research areas include the marginalization of minorities in the US, specifically Latinx diaspora; women of colors feminism and literature; postcoloniality; the existence of borderland territories; and the relations between knowledge and power. She was a guest lecturer at the universities in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and Florida International University in Miami. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) and HispaUSA Asociación de estudios sobre la población de origen hispano en EEUU.