As part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, and Alcoff and Walter Mignolo’s concept of a “plurotopic hermeneutics” in literary narratives from borderland locations, I argue that the female character Caridad’s spiritual and sexual discoveries eventually lead her and her lover Esmeralda to jump off of a mesa cliff in Acoma (Sky City), New Mexico.