Traducción del “Prefacio” a la Primera Edición y del capítulo 5: “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” de Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza. (Primera edición: 1987; tercera edición: 2007) de Gloria Anzaldúa.
As explained by Aleida Assman, the last two decades of the 20th century saw the development and consolidation of memory research, a diverse field including “neuronal, medical, and psychological as well as literary, cultural, social, and political studies” that investigate “how we live by our memories, how we are haunted by them, how we use and…