Configurations of transnationality : locating feminist rhetorics / Wendy S. Hesford, Eileen E. Schell

The late Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera has played a formative role in mainstream as well as feminist and postcolonial approaches to rhetoric and composition in the United States. Borderlands, one of her most traveled concepts, has functioned as a trope for hybrid identities and as a descriptor for genre bending and poly-vocality. Anzaldua has become a transnational figure, an iconic border crosser, and a champion of mestiza rhetoric (code-switching, multilingual, mixed genre); her work has been anthologized in composition textbooks and readers, in seminal surveys of the field such as The Rhetorical Tradition, and in edited collections of feminist and women's rhetorics such as Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald's collection Available Means and Karen Foss, Sonja Foss, and Cindy Grfiin's Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory and its companion volume Feminist Rhetorical Theories.

General Education.