ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: View-Master, Nonverbal Communication, Chronotope
8 Dec 2020
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Poem to the white man who asks me after overhearing me speak. Spanish where to find the best mexican food and then is shocked to find out i am mexican (pg. A tradition of latinx cultural production that often portrays women as passive, as supportive characters for the male hero, within the binaries of virgin/whore. Ways men see women, ways non-bipoc see bipoc, & therefore describe/fantasize them. The man right away begins with agency. Castillo establishes her alternative form of agency by saying she is not what this white man sees her for. Male gaze = a body to sexualize & objectify. Alternative agency = castillo bot feeling sorry or the need for simply existing. Establishing alternative agency of language being what makes her human not an object of sexualization. Alternative agency = castillo recognizing this man sees her as foreign & Exotic but her admitting she won"t even allow herself to be that.
