The selection we read starting on page 62 of the “Ways of Reading” textbook‚ “Entering the Serpent” by Gloria Anzaldua‚ started out with a dangerous encounter between Prieta and a rattle snake. Prieta was out in the cotton fields chopping cotton with her mother when she heard the distinctive rattle. The snake lunged out at her and sank it’s fangs through her boots and into her flesh. Prieta’s mother quickly came to the rescue swinging her hoe high over her head and then down onto the snake. When
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as 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
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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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The Beginning of a Coming Together Gloria Anzaldua’s short essay‚ Towards a New 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
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In the essay How to Tame a Wild 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
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In the opening paragraph‚ she talks about how she had a dream about serpents‚ and her mother’s warning her not to go outside at night because a snake can crawl into her buttocks and make her pregnant. She then jumps to when she went into the woods with her mother one day and was almost bitten by snake but it only got her
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they were the creators of the earth and life. “The earliest is Coatlicue‚ or “Serpent Skirt.” She had a human skull or serpent for a head‚ a necklace of human hearts‚ a skirt of twisted serpents and taloned feet‚” (Anzaldua 49). She was a woman‚ an Earth Goddess‚ the beholder of all. “Coatlicue‚ Lady of the Serpent Skirt‚ contained and balanced the dualities of male and female‚ light and dark‚ life and death‚” (Anzaldua 54). Since Coatlicue possesses these dualities she consisted of everything and
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The Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua The text is about a woman who is a victim of her culture. A culture where a female are inferior to the superior males and limits their choices of whatever they want to be in life. This belief pushed them to the lower depths of society with no one to cling to but themselves. Men are always powerful while women are often weak and helpless. This culture press people to follow the rules the conventional way and judge and deprive people of their own freedom to choose
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The Homeland‚ Aztlan Gloria Anzaldua Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands explores the identity of a people caught between two cultures: the Anglo-American culture and that of the indigenous Aztecs of the Southwest United States‚ the mestizo. In the first chapter‚ The Homeland‚ Aztlan‚ she describes how since the conquering of Mexico by Cortez‚ Anglo-Americans have slowly seized their land. The mestizo population was forced further down Mexico through fear of lynchings and the poverty faced. Many had
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In Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera‚ she discusses the people who are in between – how people can’t be put into boxes. Anzaldua (1987) talks about embracing the in between and getting past cultural tyranny‚ which is where the culture forms what we believe about these certain identities. These identities‚ or boxes‚ that culture gives us consist of a number of different labels: male‚ female‚ white‚ black‚ Mexican‚ gay/lesbian‚ and straight. The list goes on and on. People are given these labels
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