Proposal Title

Building a Bridge into Community: Gloria Anzaldúa as a Modern Enactment of the Grassian “Poet as Orator”

Proposal Type

Individual Presentation

Start Date

10-11-2018 9:45 AM

End Date

10-11-2018 11:00 AM

Abstract

This project seeks to utilize Grassian conceptualizations of Italian Renaissance Humanist philosophy as a rhetorical framework to analyze Anzaldúa’s construction of community in her text Borderlands: La Frontera and the ways in which Anzaldúa utilizes lived experience to theorize the existence of a community that is capable of transcending borders.

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Nov 10th, 9:45 AM Nov 10th, 11:00 AM

Building a Bridge into Community: Gloria Anzaldúa as a Modern Enactment of the Grassian “Poet as Orator”

This project seeks to utilize Grassian conceptualizations of Italian Renaissance Humanist philosophy as a rhetorical framework to analyze Anzaldúa’s construction of community in her text Borderlands: La Frontera and the ways in which Anzaldúa utilizes lived experience to theorize the existence of a community that is capable of transcending borders.