Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted the discussion questions in class, but here they are now!
1) In "For Waging War Is My Cosmic Duty," what is Anzaldua's argument? What makes her argument effective or ineffective?
2) Compare Adams' notions of the 'Virgin' (in "Dynamo and the Virgin") and the 'American Woman' (in "Vis Inertiae") with Anzaldua's concept of the "Virgin/whore dichotomy (in "Entering the Serpent")
Those are the questions we were discussing in class on Thursday. Professor Chilson wants us to post responses to these.
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"For Waging War is My Cosmic Duty"
I can't figure out the arguement, seems more like a history lesson than anything else.
I think the argument is WHY the Aztec nation fell. It was effective because there was a "class split;" The Aztec's raped the conquered tribes' wormen & had high taxes, so the "common class" got the Spanish to help defeat the Aztecs.
As far as comparing Adams' notions of the 'Virgin' (in "The Dynamo and the Virgin") and the 'American Woman'(in "Vis Inertiae") with Anzaldua's concept of the "Virgin/whore dichotomy (in "Entering the Serpent"), I have no idea. Adams' essay is really hard to read and I can't really understand anything he wrote. It all just seems like a bunch of really intelligent words that I don't understand, so I couldn't possibly begin to know where to look or how to start comparing.
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