This article discusses Mexican literary interventions on the Mexican-US-border,during the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. Linked to the question what qualifiestoday's literature written in the border region on the border as subject matter, it revisits thedepiction of transfronterizo culture and borderlands in three novels written by Mexican authorsof two generations: Luis Humberto Crostwaite's La luna siempre será un amor difícil (1994),Heriberto Yépez' A.B.U.R.T.O. (2005) and Yuri Herrera's Señales que precederán al fin delmundo (2009). The article starts with a short introduction into the literature of the northernborder, sketching out the determining views on the border/different approaches to the borderspace – Chicana/o views and the counter move/reaction from the Mexican side. In thisdiscussion, Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera plays a crucial role. Anzaldúa's borderthinking captured the dynamics at the border and of the border connected to the embodied, livedexperience (history, indigenous presence, sexuality), the act of remembering/recordar/remembrar the manifold affiliations through the flesh. Although Gloria Anzaldúa's text is notat the forefront of the analysis, it has aesthetic and conceptual repercussions in all three novels.