5/24/2023 0 Comments Junot diaz aurora![]() While men struggle to find an identity within a new environment, women are not even welcome within their own culture. Women are even more so affected because, according to Anzaldua, “culture is made by those in power men” (Anzaldua 1018). ![]() This is a problem that heavily affects the Latino immigrant community in the United States because assimilating to the American way of life marks them as traitors to their culture, despite the fact that they are never wholly accepted by American culture regardless of what they sacrifice. Furthermore, her focus on borders, in particular those that exist between languages, cultures, and genders, allows her to emphasize how many people do not fit into either side of a binary. Her use of “Spanglish” allows her to create a space for herself to voice her opinion that does not exist within either the Chicano or White American cultures that surround her. In her book, Anzaldua writes in a combination of Spanish and English in order to simultaneously critique, alienate, and engage her readers. ![]()
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