Chapter-By-Chapter Summary and Discussion of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria AnzaldÃºa. Author and Book. Gloria AnzaldÃºa, the author of this book, is attempting to define the âNew Mestizaâ throughout its contents, and does so by examining herself, her land, and her language.
Author's Purpose. Many different types of writing exist in the world, ranging from classic Shakespearean plays to politicians' speeches to the screenplay treatments that inspired this summer's biggest blockbuster hits.
What is the purpose of a book? This is a complex question, for books have no purpose that is analogous to that of a plow or a needle. Books do many things, and also nothing at all in a practical sense-except perhaps to weight down papers and keep them from flying away.Books may serve one purpose for the writer and another for the reader-or rather one purpose for the writer and another purpose for each of the different readers who come to the text.his is not to say that the book is entirely unsuccessful: Some elements of it do work well, including the fact that this story is told in some measure as an epic story, a form of storytelling that is probably as old as humanity itself and that crosses cultural as well as historical bou...