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The border and border-crossing and its significance for the Chicana
in a cultural, social, gendered, and spiritual sense are at the
core of this book. The three oeuvres selected-Helena Viramontes'
The Moths and Other Stories, Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala
Letters, and Norma Cantu's Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la
Frontera-are eloquent examples of feminist Chicana writers who
refuse to allow their lives to be restricted by the gender, social,
racial, and cultural border and who portray how Chicana women rebel
against the unfair treatment they receive from their fathers,
husbands and lovers. Crossing and deconstructing the man-made
borders means to leave behind the known territory and discover an
unknown land, in the hope of finding a new world in which Chicana
women have the same rights as white women and in which they can
realize their self, develop a new mestiza consciousness and
liberate themselves from patriarchal constraints and religious
beliefs. The author shows how the newly won self-confidence
empowers the Chicana to explore the opportunities this freedom
offers.
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