Entre Borderlands/La Frontera y Huaco retrato. Ejercicios decoloniales pendulares en Gloria Anzaldúa y Gabriela Wiener

Abstract

Gloria Anzaldúa and Gabriela Wiener are both dissident racialized women to the heteronormativity whose instrument of life, identity and activism is the word. Their work is essential for understanding basic aspects that make up today's global society, marked by postcolonial power relations and gender inequality. If Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) is considered a founding work of Chicano studies, giving entity and visibility to this culture and to intersectional feminism, Wiener's Huaco retrato (2021) has recently burst into the contemporary literary scene, removing the European foundations built on colonialism, an origin of social class inequality. In this essay, we analyze in depth the issues they address, as well as their innovative yet divergent proposals –specifically their discursive strategies – whose trajectories sometimes meet, intersect, or run parallel to each other.