Gloria Anzaldua There have been many important topics and discussions that we have talked about in this class covering many throughout the year. We’ve come across many writers‚ thinkers‚ and poets that have brilliant thoughts and ideas. However‚ Gloria Anzaldua has the best views and beliefs relating to discourse‚ labeling‚ consciousness of self‚ identity‚ and cross-cultural fertilization. Anzaldua addresses these issues best in her passage “Towards a New Consciousness” along with her book
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Texas‚ and she identifies herself as a Chicana feminist. The different discourse communities seen through her writing is the struggle she has between the different languages she has to adapt to around different people in her life. Writing from the borderlands between American‚ Mexican‚ Spanish‚ Indian‚ Chicano‚ and Mestiza culture‚ Anzaldua creates a representation of the wide range of forces within herself and the culture from which comes. The excerpt opens up with her in the dentist office‚ and
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Language throughout our culture is extremely powerful. It is used to make connections with other people‚ it is used in business‚ and countless other things. Without language there would be no unity or diversity. Both Anzaldúa and Morrison explore the power of language in their own perspectives. Anzaldúa expresses the power of language when she talks about linguistic terrorism. She mentions that‚ “Repeated attacks on our native tongue diminish our sense of self” (Austin 210). Since she was raised
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her experience in a post-colonial world as a Chicana‚ a lesbian and a woman who grew up in a cross-cultured area trying to understand her identity but also to make us rethink about what a border is and what are the consequences which come with it. Anzaldua creates a “mestiza consciousness” as a dynamic capable of breaking down dualistic ascendant archetypes. This concept is related to “hybridity”‚ a mixed race‚ which will be the primary focus in this essay. The significance of being a hybrid in a colonized
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Tongue from Borderlands/La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create‚ but is also secondary to‚ the psychological "fence" that a person is put on when they are denied a culture and a place in society. Anzaldua talks about the dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her chosen language‚ the confusion about their race‚ and what
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The way that Anzaldua and Rodriquez differentiate in terms of their first language‚ is Anzaldua is proud of being bi-lingual and accepts her language despite not speaking it perfectly well. Given these points‚ Anzaldua later on taught Chicano in high school‚ she became passionate to teach students about the Spanish heritage and the language. Also‚ on the other side of the ledger. Rodriguez doesn’t see a lot of values in his first language (Spanish). He seemed to be more embarrassed and less appreciative
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• Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Lations deficient‚ a mutilation of Spanish. • A language which they can connect their identity to‚ one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves – a language with terms that are neither español ni ingles‚ but both. • Identify themselves as a distinct people • Languages we speak: o Standard English o Working class & slang English o Standard Spanish
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I see a lot of similarities between the language and concepts that Anzaldúa uses and those that our earlier thinkers‚ like James‚ Dewey‚ and Bergson use. She homes in on universally inclusive ideas like a “collective consciousness” (p. 20) and her belief that “each person’s actions affect the rest of the world” (p. 15). This has been a pretty controversial/contested idea in our class as well; many of us seem to be apprehensive when approaching that concept‚ as if doing so is imposing the belief that
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she argues for equal access and opportunity. Several years later‚ Gloria Anzaldúa reclaims the word mestiza in her discussion about borders in Borderlands: La Frontera (1987). Writing in the beginning of the 20th century‚ Woolf was very much a proponent of First Wave feminism and its goal of equal possibility for women. Though this was a revolutionary idea‚ Woolf fails to mention race and the non-binary‚ however‚ Anzaldúa is one of the first to be a major proponent for racial‚ intersectional‚ and
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Consciousness‚ begins with the description of her mixed culture‚ a mestiza‚ and the conflicts she faces in being torn between being Mexican and Native American. Anzaldua expresses her struggle of her torn heritages by describing herself as being caught between two cultures and their values. Instead of being able to love and respect both cultures‚ Anzaldua feels as if we people feel the need to take up one side of our heritage and end up hating the other part. She paints an image as standing on an opposite
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