This writing really doesn't have characters. It is the authors views on culture, language and life.
I don't know anything about this topic. The author gives details to support her point, after reading the words I am a bit confused; I at least understand the primary goal she is working towards.
I can imagine a lot about this writing. There is a diverse mix of writing here, she does not adhere to one theme so there is information about several different things being developed. She is obviously a linguist and writes about linguistics. She is also arguing for social changes she wants as well.
I think this writing leaves a lot to the imagination unfortunately. It seems that we only get a glimpse into Anzaldua's mind at the end when we learn that she is looking forward to a time when her bloodline will inherit the earth because it is superior to other bloodlines. I think she would be much less coy were she in a conversation with her peers. It is really the kind of writing that leaves one wondering: how extremist is she really?
What I feel about this piece is not good. Anzaldua was insulted and injured as a child and those wrongs have charged her, polarized her. In her adulthood she has regressed into something terrible, her thoughts are now consumed with exacting revenge on the race that wronged her. Her belief is the common belief of all racial supremacists: my life is no good+that race is why my life is no good=all I need to be good is for that race to cease to exist.
I wouldn't want to learn any more. People like this depress me and I don't have the capacity to convince her that we are all the same.
I can't speculate on how I would react to a life like Anzaldua's. I am fortunate to have not lived it. Perhaps I would have wound up being just as radical as she is. I live quite well, I have never been presented with a reason to mistrust and dislike a race. Oppression is something I have never been victimized by, there is no knowing how I would react. I definitely don't like people telling me what to do.
There is really no relating this to my own life that I can see now.
No comments:
Post a Comment