Translingual literature: The bone people and Borderlands

This thesis proposes that by producing and existing within a translingual text, the ethnofeminist has found a way to subvert others\u27 construction of her and redefine her identity. In particular, the ethnofeminist uses code switching to select and reinvent meaning from the language system of the dominant culture while maintaining the language system of the marginal group. In combining two (or more) language systems within a literature she has created her own language