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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

1942 - 2004

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work. She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that develop along borders, including on the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gloria E. Anzaldúa has received more than 1,224,061 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gloria E. Anzaldúa is the 4,778th most popular writer (up from 4,928th in 2019), the 6,532nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,284th in 2019) and the 526th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ranks 4,778 out of 7,302. Before her are Philippe Djian, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf, Katarina Frostenson, Xaviera Hollander, Anna Enquist, and Axel Bakunts. After her are Roger Vitrac, Mirjam Pressler, Vincenzo Monti, Yann Martel, John D. MacDonald, and Florence Delay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ranks 452. Before her are Deirdre McCloskey, Driss Bamous, Lutz D. Schmadel, Enrique Morente, Michael Gwisdek, and Antoni Piechniczek. After her are Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Clara Nunes, Alexander Kalyagin, Fernando Atzori, Bibi Besch, and John E. Blaha. Among people deceased in 2004, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ranks 215. Before her are Kenneth E. Iverson, Mahmut Atalay, Gunder Hägg, Skeeter Davis, O. W. Fischer, and Madeleine Robinson. After her are Pat Roach, José Luis Cuciuffo, George Baird, Mikhail Voronin, Inge Meysel, and Laurance Rockefeller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ranks 6,532 out of 20,380. Before her are Millie Perkins (1938), Bob Falkenburg (1926), Lana Clarkson (1962), Joseph Leidy (1823), Norbert Schemansky (1924), and Mark Henry (1971). After her are John D. MacDonald (1916), Daniel Pipes (1949), Trish Van Devere (1941), Dan Duryea (1907), Edward Platt (1916), and Lawrence Lessig (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gloria E. Anzaldúa ranks 526. Before her are Jacqueline Susann (1918), James Salter (1925), Robert Ettinger (1918), Sue Grafton (1940), R. J. Palacio (1963), and Susan Brownmiller (1935). After her are John D. MacDonald (1916), James Lee Burke (1936), Irving Wallace (1916), David E. Kelley (1956), Chaim Potok (1929), and Jaroslav Pelikan (1923).

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