tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post2039921473410860949..comments2023-10-18T04:25:43.127-05:00Comments on ysletapoeta: Emmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14210006408835010296noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-41568216809277170432020-01-06T11:17:52.331-06:002020-01-06T11:17:52.331-06:00Your enthusiasm leads you beyond the limits. whils...Your enthusiasm leads you beyond the limits. whilst you feel yourself enthusiastic that’s the time you can pass any restrict. you're searching out to get perfection through the usage of the functionality of exertions. study such motivational article and truely it'll permit you to recognize new data. <a href="http://www.qualitypestcontrolandmaintenance.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Cheap Pest Control Melbourne</a>John kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04554163357189281558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-630959978526659542007-07-05T21:11:00.000-05:002007-07-05T21:11:00.000-05:00emmy, thanks for your reflections and other refere...emmy, thanks for your reflections and other references on this. yes,<BR/>an uproar indeed would ensue if <BR/>it were the other way around.o.p.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18408578329474868557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-26326732880327824112007-07-01T13:51:00.000-05:002007-07-01T13:51:00.000-05:00here's another thought... what an uproar there wou...here's another thought... what an uproar there would be if the ap test asked a question about chicana/o literature that required specialized chicana/o cultural knowledge to unpack the question.Emmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14210006408835010296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-56075485021679348182007-06-29T20:48:00.001-05:002007-06-29T20:48:00.001-05:00here's the passage from borderlands/la frontera i ...here's the passage from borderlands/la frontera i was thinking about when i last posted. it's in the chapter "La herencia de Coatlicue/The Coatlicue State." <BR/><BR/>she writes, "As a person, I, as a people, we, Chicanos, blame ourselves, hate ourselves, terrorize ourselves. Most of this goes on unconsciously; we only know that we are hurting, we suspect that there is something 'wrong' with us, something fundamentally 'wrong.'"<BR/><BR/>while the context of this chapter is much, much more complex beyond the subject of this post, i use the connection here as only one of dozens upon dozens of situations that this chapter makes me think about. i hope that by using it here, i don't detract from the complexity of the chapter that goes way beyond the subject of this post.<BR/><BR/>i especially admire how the chapter ends with a beginning, when she describes overcoming the coatlicue state as a coming into total consciousness: "...my thousand sleepless serpent eyes blinking in the night, forever open. And I am not afraid."Emmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14210006408835010296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-30299948684065530982007-06-28T14:01:00.000-05:002007-06-28T14:01:00.000-05:00hi o.p.--thanks for reading this... you are ever g...hi o.p.--thanks for reading this... you are ever generous.<BR/><BR/>3,000 essays in a few days--wow! that must have been a whirlwind. i appreciate your insight about those exams... it's alarming how things haven't changed much over the years. i think many students feel this disconnect as their own inadequacy (read: lack of "intelligence") once they learn their exam results on these types of tests and on future college essay exams. i often felt my face hot with embarrassment reading teachers' comments on my papers in college, and in retrospect i recognize that academia is often a cultural code many have a difficult time deciphering without a series of humiliations first. i think many students of various backgrounds are entering college feeling inadequate, feeling they lack intelligence, feeling that their inadequacies are their own shortcomings. this makes me think of what g. anzaldúa wrote in "borderlands/la frontera" about those of us who automatically blame ourselves for perceived "shortcomings" of all kinds (my book is at school... i'll find a passage to quote soon). <BR/><BR/>i hope you do write a post (better yet, a post that leads to an article) on your experience grading the exams and all that it leads you to think about. when you write, "i pictured it like a first question on a passport application to obtain or maintain (social/economic) power: can you read/identify these priviledged, specific cultural codes? if so--proceed, if not, stay to the side," although not an exact parallel, this reminds me of theresa cha's "dictee," especially this passage about the narrator's mother's experience in the book: "They say you look other than you say. As if you didn't know who you were. You say who you are but you begin to doubt. They search you. They, the anonymous variety of uniforms, each division, strata, classification, any set of miscellaneous properly uni formed..." <BR/><BR/>you are so right on with your comments, o.p. hope you write more about this.Emmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14210006408835010296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-23412005063606387252007-06-19T10:19:00.000-05:002007-06-19T10:19:00.000-05:00this long post/poem has me twisting and turning an...this long post/poem has me twisting and turning and i love that. <BR/>what you say near the end:<BR/>"in some ways, what's most frightening is how some of the most informed are also some of the most active in feeding the power structure which is ultimately bound to economic interests and/or maintaining/gaining power" is so<BR/>true emmy. i just returned from <BR/>scoring AP lit essay tests, where i read over 3000 (out of 300,000) essays based on a literary passage that was so white male-centric, that its cultural bias should have been obvious to everyone "in charge" of testing or education, and yet kids from all over the u.s., who took this exam, oftentimes either read or misread the passage based on whether they were familiar with the priviledged cultural perspectives the text embraced. i pictured it like a first question on a passport application to obtain or maintain (social/economic) power: can you read/identify these priviledged, specific cultural codes? if so--proceed, if not, stay to the side. i am heartsick over this. i'm going to be writing about it more, but you are spot on, emmy, spot on.o.p.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18408578329474868557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-52118678838823755272007-06-12T22:56:00.000-05:002007-06-12T22:56:00.000-05:00thanks so much for reading this long post, jp. i ...thanks so much for reading this long post, jp. i am hoping to work on some of this for my current manuscript, so your comments are very helpful. it's the kind of writing that i don't ever want to stop, so i hope it leads to more. i do admire l.h.'s 'my life' very much. thanks again.Emmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14210006408835010296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29325015.post-37253647970489120462007-06-11T17:39:00.000-05:002007-06-11T17:39:00.000-05:00this feels like another book being born, or a very...this feels like another book being born, or a very long poem. <BR/><BR/>i dont know. call me loco. but thas what i think.<BR/><BR/>i love the flow of it. have you read lyn hejinian? my life? it makes me think of that at points. rock on.John Plueckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com