"On Being a Cripple"
For students without 50 Essays, I have been finding the full text of these essays on-line. If I can find them, you can find them: www.smartercarter.com/Essays/.../On%20Being%20a%20Cripple.doc
I found "No Name Woman," "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" and "On Being a Cripple" in less than 5 minutes. If you do not know how to do this, ask one of the tutors in the Writing Center for help or me.
Resourcefulness and creativity don't cost anything except effort. If you do not talk to me, I cannot help you.
Other three essays I found:
http://www.mpsaz.org/mtnview/staff/lmbormann/class4/course_materials/files/anzaldua-wild-tongue.pdf
www.umt.edu/udwpa/docs/vowellsept.doc
Here is Sarah Vowell on This American Life, a great radio show: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/81/guns
I found "No Name Woman," "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" and "On Being a Cripple" in less than 5 minutes. If you do not know how to do this, ask one of the tutors in the Writing Center for help or me.
Resourcefulness and creativity don't cost anything except effort. If you do not talk to me, I cannot help you.
Other three essays I found:
http://www.mpsaz.org/mtnview/staff/lmbormann/class4/course_materials/files/anzaldua-wild-tongue.pdf
www.umt.edu/udwpa/docs/vowellsept.doc
Here is Sarah Vowell on This American Life, a great radio show: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/81/guns
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 9:49 AM
3 Comments:
Enrique Barboza
2/11/2013
English 1A 4-550PM
I can relate from what the author has written in her essay. She writes about being from multiple cultures that are related with language. She first discusses that in American society, she is punished for speaking her own language and not following society's norm, which is speaking English. In Mexican society, she states that she seen as traitor for speaking English, and she is obviously caught in between in the middle of the expectations of both societies. Schools even required students to take two speech classes in order to get rid of their accents (34). She states that language is connected to ones cultural identity and I totally agree. And this came to be because “people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English is the reigning tongue but who are not Anglo; for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard Spanish nor standard English, what recourse is left for them but to create their own language? A language which they can connect their identity to, one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves (35-36). There are different variations Spanish depending on the location you are from and may or may not have English influence. She describes how Chicanos speak different languages, and it all depends on who you are talking to (36). Each language has its own identity a Chicano can relate and communicate with.
Enrique Barboza
2/11/2013
English 1A 4-550PM
Summary of Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman
In Maxine Hong Kingston's essay, No Name Woman, she writes about an aunt from her father's side of the family who killed herself. There are several themes she discusses in her essay, mainly about family and being a Chinese-American woman, and differences between old and new culture.
Family plays an important role in a child's development. Some ways of of teaching children is by telling them stories with lessons. Kingston's mother begins by telling her story about her father's sister in China. Her aunt's husband was away in America and she was pregnant with a child that obviously was not his. On the day the child was born, the village raided, looted and trashed her home and slaughtered the families livestock. The day after her aunt and her child were found drowned in the family well. Her mother tells her that now that has started to “menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful” (223). Her family also talks about an “outcast table”, which is a separate table where a person who has shamed the family eats on. In many cultures, stories like these are told to keep to warn us about life. They are usually very frightening and Kingston's mother used scary stories like these to teach her that to respect herself, as her actions reflect on the family.
Although her mother has probably told her this story to teach her a lesson and scare her. It could be implied that the story was just used to teach her a lesson, because she begins to write about how her aunt's side of the story. In, my opinion, this shows a different culture and views different from her mother's. She writes about how she may have been “unusually beloved, the precious only daughter, spoiled and mirror-gazing because of the affection the family lavished on her” (227), and how she probably felt lonely after she had married. This in turn, caused her to make her look attractive and fall in love with someone else. This was not normal in old culture, because she describes how dominate society. Kingston learns a different lesson than what her mother had told her. She writes that her how her Aunt was betrayed and abandoned by her family. She was cast out and treated as if she had never existed, without ever knowing her side of the story.
English 1A 4-550PM
Enrique Barboza
Sorry I didn't specify the what I summarized in my first post, it is Gloria Anzaldua's How to Tame a Wild Tongue
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