Blog post #5 Dan

     Anzaldua's style is characterized by hybridizing multicultural, ethnic, and linguistic experience while making it all accessible to the audience which it does not privilege. Since her style prioritizes certain influences, she consciously opens it up to all audiences so that the message of her text can be open to all audiences regardless of privilege or background. This works for her style because of the breadth of experience that she has in life with different background and personal social history. Given the variety of lives which she can speak for, she has mastered all of the appropriate vernaculars and terminology necessary to extrapolate the details she is trying to explain. The effect of switching between the widely different styles leaves me out from certain passages, so without an annotation I am only granted the understanding of the topic that the author intended for me to see. Perhaps she knew that English speakers would need to see one message and bilingual speakers another. I am curious to read an annotated edition of her writing.