Pat Mora: Transcending the Continental Divide One Book at a Time

Mexican American writer Pat Mora has dedicated her career to creating poetry and prose that supports readers’ transnational and cosmopolitan identities. This article examines five of Mora’s picture books that are accessible in both Spanish and English and relevant to children in both México and the U.S. Each transcends political borders and amplifies the hypotheses that Gloria Anzaldúa introduces in Borderlands: The New Mestiza and Mora extends in Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle.