Genre, Gender, and Mestizaje: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa

I take mestizaje as my point of departure for this critical study of Anzaldua\u27s literary production. Through this ideological practice she calls mestizaje or mestiza consciousness, Anzaldua pens a body of work that negotiates the question mark punctuating the politics of identity in multicultural America at least since the political activism of the 1960s