Abstract
A Japanese student named Sakiko Aida had the opportunity to travel to Puerto Rico with her colleagues from Milbridge University, to study and research Puerto Rican cultures and their economic lives. As for the structure of the novel, it is made up of the diaries of two female students: Sakiko and Julia. The novel says that understanding different cultures mutually is not a simple problem and to carry it out we must cross the borders of differences: races, cultures, differentiating oneself from others, discrimination and so on. A mestiza consciousness of Gloria Anzaldúa creates the powerful energy to break down the subject-object dualistic thinking and to show through the images how duality is transcended, adding to the self the third element which is greater than united some separated cultures.
