Gloria E. Anzaldúa

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms, which she endeavors to upset through women's activist examination and issues. As one of numerous subaltern Indian ladies of the Americas striving to defeat the conventions of quiet, Anzaldua endeavors to recoup the female recorded vicinity by restorying Outskirt history and revising the…

The two authors, W.E.B. DuBois and Gloria Anzaldua show what double consciousness is in their writings. DuBois depicts it as more abstract while Anzaldua depicts it as a more physical location. Additionally, DuBois states that people only have two social identities while Anzaldua says that people have multiple social identities. Both authors mention how people must switch their social identities depending on the people they are around. Despite both authors writing over eighty years apart they…

representations. Irigaray wants the body removed from its normative constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known and well-respected French feminist theorist. She works as an interdisciplinary thinker in linguistics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Irigaray’s recognition came from her writing of Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

Anna Monson, Sam Blankenship, and Mattie Rametta Horror Story Henry was a small child who had just turned the age of nine. He lived with his grandpa who was seventy-three. Henry’s grandpa didn’t pay much attention to Henry, he had dementia and other mental diseases so he didn’t know much about taking care of Henry. From the age of five Henry had to learn how to care for himself. Henry was very intelligent, he had to learn how to cook food for himself, wash his clothes, and take care of other…

Gloria Steinem was born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. Gloria started out in her early days to be an author, but no one would take her writing as she is a woman. One day she went to watch an abortion hearing. When in high school, Gloria herself had an abortion, so the topic hit close to home. At the hearing, she heart arguments such as “abortion is murder”, and watching all the women fight for rights that day impacted her. She chose to become an woman's activist. During the late 60’s, she…

Dorcas Abiola Xavia Dryden 02 December 2015 English 237 The Courageous Black Women ofBrewster Place and Their Lives “The Women of Brewster Places” focuses on seven women who struggle to balance their emotional lives but are interconnected in some way as they are all residence of the Brewster place. The author Gloria Nayolar gives a combination of dual cultures of African American women migrating from the Southern to the northern part of the United States of America. Brewster place is a…

Joe Gillis: A Character Study Joe Gillis is one of the most interesting characters to ever grace the silver screen, and a character that is still studied to this day. While Gloria Swanson’s historic performance of Norma Desmond garners more attention and praise, I would make the argument that William Holden’s portrayal of Joe Gillis is just as intriguing. Billy Wilder created a character that I have never been so unsure of, he is one of the great examples of the anti-hero. He’s not a great guy,…

Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” and Judy Grahn’s “I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe’s Body” both detail how the intense Hollywood cult of celebrity can lead to dizzying heights of fame, transforming ordinary people into worldwide stars with legions of adoring fans and admirers. Such fame and notoriety, however, does not come without a cost. Both Norma and Marilyn, Hollywood stars of these respective narratives, came to see the fame that once dominated their lives devolve into a destructive…

1. The movie Sunset Boulevard follows a writer, a man named Joe who comes across an old mansion while trying to hide his car which is about to be reclaimed because he is unable to pay his bills. Desperate for a job, he starts to read the script of the old Hollywood star that lives in the mansion, Norma Desmond. Norma was once one of the biggest silent film stars in Hollywood, but once talking pictures got popular and she got older, there was less demand for her work, and she has spent the last…