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Anzaldua and Gunn Allen both dealt with the issues of being many things all at once, but both had different views of the kind of consciousness that resulted from being oppressed. Although they were similar the difference was that Gunn Allen felt that she was more of a hybrid while Anzaldua embraced the idea of a third consciousness or the borderlands consciousness. Anzaldua was at the borderlands of nations and caught between her culture as a Chicano women and lesbian.
With Gunn Allen she produced her consciousness from taking in her indigenous identity and combining it with her knowledge of the outside world and herself to make sense of western patriarchal oppression. It seemed like Gunn Allen made herself more a part her culture due to the oppression she endured so that she could learn more about her civilization and separate it from the others. From her writing readers can gather that power works through competing cultural codes.
On the other had Anzaldua showed that power was multiple and uneven, but this coincides with the fact that Anzaldua was very multiple in the sense of who she was because she was never just once thing. Every part of her was something and partially something else because she never defined herself.
Anzaldua and Gunn Allen were similar in the sense they had many views and encompassed many experiences all in one. Specifically they dealt with their sexual identity and how to remain a part of their culture/ civilization. Gunn Allen and Anzaldua were different in how they dealt with oppression, their, culture, and they identity. Basically Anzaldua never defined herself but rather accepted her consciousness as one of borderlands meaning a meshing of many things so that it is both and neither. Whereas Allen actually defined herself and her experiences as a hybrid and focused more on learning about her culture in the west and how the oppression worked.