Quote: Rhetorician and composition scholar Andrea Lunsford has called this mixed discourse a "mestiza rhetoric," with "mestiza" referring not only to the specific racial and cultural mixing that has produced the Mexican American people, but also to a more generalized concept of internal multiplicity, or complex identity, that is expressed in language drawn from a variety of culural sources. Lunsford describes Anzaldua's "new kind of writing style" in this way: "She shifts from poetry to reportorial prose to autobiographical stream of consciousness to incantatory mythic chants to sketches and graphs - and back again, weaving images from her multiple selves and from many others into a kind of tapestty or patchwork quilt of language."
Question: What differentiates this type of rhetoric to all the other theorists that we've spoken about and their ideas of rhetoric? How does Gloria differentiate specifically from all the other women theorists that we've spoken about thus far?
I think it's a more personal style of rhetoric and Gloria is weaving her culture and experience through her form of rhetoric, which is advantageous for the content she's writing about. She's different from the other women rhetoricians we've read about since she writes with the influence of her culture and addresses certain issues in society that are more pertinent to her experience.
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