When analyzing Gloria Anzaldua’s writing “How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚” it is important to look at her background. She comes from a very diverse background; her parents were immigrants‚ she was born in south 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
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in 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
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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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Throughout Michael Dibdin’s piece “The Last Sherlock Holmes Story”‚ the author frequently portrays the concept of borderlands to elucidate important themes and events in the story. The importance of this concept is crucial in defining what makes the story so complex and yet almost explicit at the same time. Essentially the concept of borderlands conveys the idea of dualism‚ metaphorically‚ symbolically‚ and intrinsically. Sherlock Holmes in himself is already a complex entity which symbolically
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14 September 2012 What is your Borderland? What is your borderland? Essentially that is the question one ask themselves when reading Gloria Anzald’s “To live in the borderlands means you.” The brushstroke is broad‚ but Ms. Anzald brings it into focus with this poem. This piece of artwork brings awareness to the ethnic‚ social and cultural movement that was coming abreast during that era. During the 1980’s‚ immidtation and ethnic diversity was central characters of the American experience
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frontier in an uncertain‚ intermediate district‚ space‚ or condition is called a Borderland. Borderlands are the geographical space or zone around a territorial border. A borderland is both a place and a historic graphic methodology‚ although historians often combine the two uses. A borderland‚ in its loosest definition‚ is a place where two entities (usually nations or societies) border each other. As a methodology‚ borderlands studies question what happens when distinct societies rub against each other
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read in‚ “Speaking In Tongues” by Zadie Smith and “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldùa. Smith and Anzaldùa both shared a similar problem. They were afraid that they may lose or already lost their voice/language. While Anzaldùa did everything to prevent that‚ “I had to “argue” with one advisor after the other‚ semester after semester‚ before I was allowed to make Chicano literature an area of focus” (Anzaldùa 376). Smith on the other hand just tried to fit in‚ “A braver person‚ perhaps
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5‚ 1947) is a Filipino politician who served as the14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010‚ as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001‚ and is currently a member of the House of Representativesrepresenting the 2nd District of Pampanga. She was the country’s second female president (after Corazón Aquino)‚ and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Arroyo was a former professor of economics
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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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Transplantations & Borderlands I The Early Chesapeake A) The Founding of Jamestown 1) In 1607‚ three ships from the London Company reached the American coast and founded a town called Jamestown (i) However‚ the town was located horribly (geographically & Indian territory) (ii) They were extremely susceptible to malaria‚ lacked proper food & housing‚ and no women were sent with them 2) Jamestown was almost extinct until 1608‚ when John Smith came to lead the country out of its collapse B) Reorganization
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