BORDERLAND - This term was used in our first class and it is the first word I wrote in my notebook. This key concept was particularly interesting and though-provoking. It helped me develop ideas about Eastern Europe from the start of Unit 1. It made me think about borderlands all over the world‚ not just in Eastern Europe. I started to wonder what exactly defines where a country ends‚ does it really end at the borderland? Julia Sushytska explains in her article “what is Eastern Europe – a philosophical
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I. Introduction • “El Anglo con cara de incocente nos arrancó la lengua” • Wild tongues can’t be tamed‚ they can only be cut out. II. Overcoming the Tradition of Silence • Muchachitas bien criadas • “In my culture they are all words that are derogatory if applied to women – I’ve never heard them applied to men.” III. Oyé como ladra: el lenguaje de la frontera • Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Lations deficient‚ a mutilation of Spanish
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especially for females. For instance‚ in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa‚ snakes are once more equated with sacredness in defiance of Christian interpretations of snakes as being evil. Anzaldúa‚ a Chicana‚ says in her book that she “know[s] Earth is a coiled serpent. Forty years it’s taken [her] to enter into the Serpent‚ to acknowledge that [she has] a body‚ that [she is] a body and to assimilate the animal body‚ the animal soul” (Anzaldúa 26). Unlike the European thought
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unusable. This would help conserve the grass cover and soil integrity. 2 Grass banking is a technique where cattle are allowed to graze on portions of land while others are allowed to recover. I would suggest the technique that they used in the Malpai Borderlands where overgrazing has trampled the soil and scattered tree seeds where the grasses had dominated. I would suggest working with government agencies‚ environmentalists‚ and scientists to help with bringing back the grazing land. The 500‚000 acres
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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa is a notable Chicana feminist‚ cultural theorist‚ and activist because of her many contributions to social movements regarding minority women. Not only did she impact this “renaissance” for Chicana literature through her own writings‚ but she also encouraged other aspiring minority artists and writers to help expose the diversity that was rapidly growing in the United States. Personally‚ Anzaldúa interested me because of her efforts in promoting feminism‚ so I wanted to
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Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera the New Mestiza was hard to get through at times because of its distorted structure. The novel consists of short passages‚ historical contexts‚ poems‚ recollections‚ personal experiences‚ quotes and much more. The reason that I found it difficult to get through the text was because it was partially in English and partially in Spanish. My lack of fluency in the foreign language that she used created a barrier that did not allow me to fully understand what
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life‚ there is always a cause to something and with a cause come’s its effects. In the case of Gloria Anzaldua and Eric Liu we see that the cause of them having to assimilate is because they live in a dominant society to which their culture and identity do not meet the standards of the currents society. This causes them to have to assimilate so that they are able to fit in. In the case of Anzaldua we see that she has to change the way that she speaks because she has been brought up to think that the
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The Challenges to Spanish Colonization in the Borderlands How did the Spanish establish colonies on the borderlands? While France and England were building colonies in North America‚ Spain’s colonies in the Americas were already hundreds of years old. The Spanish established colonies on the borderlands by building missions‚ presidios‚ and pueblos. Early in the 1500s‚ Spanish explorers reached Florida‚ but at first they did not build permanent settlements. Fearing that France might take over the
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The language that I will be working on is the Maidun language. The Maidun language is shown to come from the Penutian language‚ which is one the the six main languages shown in “Flutes of Fire”. In accordance to native-languages.org‚ the Maiduan language has three different languages that are spoken‚ such as‚ Maidu‚ Nisenan‚ and Konkow. The language of Maidun was used in California‚ more specifically Northern California. “Most Maidu people live on Rancherias‚ which are parcels of land in the state
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TAMING A WILD TONGUE Gloria Anzaldua’s title "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"‚ depending on which angle it is looked at‚ could be seen as a rhetoric question in the sense that the "tongue" and or whatever it stands to signify cannot be tamed. In this case it metaphorically represents her native language-Spanish or Chicano Spanish-to be precise. On the other hand‚ the title could be taken as a statement of ridicule to show the futility or near futility of trying to force a change of language or pattern
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