" The "mestiza consciousness", was introduced in Borderlands, a book by, for 10 points, what lesbian Chicana author?
In one essay, this writer claimed that "shadow beasts" or "desconociementos," such as numbness and anger, stalked her after the Twin Towers fell. That essay compares writing to healing a fragmented identity and is part of this writer's directive named for a goddess who was beheaded. In her most famous book, this author imagines confronting an underworld goddess and licking her icy face as analogous to confronting herself using a mirror. This theorizer of the "Coyolxauhqui (KOH-yoll-SHOU-kwee) imperative", may be best known for a book that code switches between English and Spanish, and discusses "The Coatlicue State" before concluding with the assertion "This land was Mexican once / was Indian always / and is. And will be again." The "mestiza consciousness", was introduced in Borderlands, a book by, for 10 points, what lesbian Chicana author?
In one essay, this writer claimed that "shadow beasts" or "desconociementos," such as numbness and anger, stalked her after the Twin Towers fell.
Gloria Anzaldua [or Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa]