Gloria Anzaldua

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• Gloria Anzaldua
• Points of Identification with Anzaldua
• Chopping up and labeling p.101
• Only viable choice lives a contradiction p. 103
• Living In between--my childhood as the youngest
  and oldest
• Religion Moses and Ministers

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• Nature of the World
• A Continuum
• Borderlands a world of culture tension and
  clash
• Nepantla torn between ways
• Mestiza a new mestiza consciousness--a
  synthesis

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Definition of Feminism Mestiza Addressing
oppression on the borderlands Nature of the
Rhetor Straddles multiple cultural
boundaries example--two languages,
Moses? Rhetorical Options Use of
metaphors--resistance to change and dead
metaphors p.115
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• Three Context/Realms of Metaphoric Shifts
• Intrapersonal Realm By changing self, world is
  changed
• Interpersonal Realm Four interpersonal
  options--
• island--no bridges
• drawbridge--up and down
• bridge--being available
• sandbar--shifting location
• Public Realm Creative arts, performances, and
  presentations (a sneak attack)

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• Transformation of Rhetorical Theory
• Anzaldua is committed to multiplicity,
  instability, disorientation, insecurity, and
  conflicting demands. She resists the tendencies
  manifest in traditional rhetorical theory toward
  stability, rigidity, codification , and
  confinement of terms of meaning. (Foss, p. 124)
• Ethos In the borderlands she contrasts
  truthfulness(main stream confirmation) to
  making faces
• Exigence Instead of fixing a defect keep the
  wound open and festering
• Identification making no attempt, the choice of
  the rebel
• Change multiple options t audience rather than
  one focus that is supported