Analytic Notes

Analytic Note: Beasts of Burden, Can the Subaltern Speak?, Borderlands

Write your answer under each question.

1. In Chapter 17 of Beasts of Burden, explain what Taylor means when she advocates for a cripped feminist animal ethics of care.  How might that affect the lives of the disabled and animals? Include at least one direct quotation from Chapter 17.
2. After viewing and hearing the powerpoint I posted on Canvas on Spivak, answer the following question: In response to the question, “Can the subaltern speak?” She responds “No.” How would she explain her answer? Include at least one direct quotation from her essay.
3. Anzaldua begins by stating clearly that this work is written concerning the U.S.-Mexico border. She describes how a borderland forms a third, in-between country. What are the biopolitical implications of living/working/embodying in this third country—and other kinds of—borderlands? How does Anzaldúa’s conception of the border complicate our understanding of regulatory/disciplinary “norms?” Include at least one direct quotation from her work.

Checklist:

1. Did you answer the question(s) asked?

2. Did you incorporate direct quotations that provided evidence for your answers?

3. Did all of your paragraphs start with a topic sentence that reflected what the paragraph was about?

4. Did all of your paragraphs end with a concluding sentence that reflects what the paragraph was about?

5. Did every sentence have good sentence structure and was each one grammatically correct?

6. Are the direct quotations NOT italicized, but in regular font with quotation marks?

Typically direct quotations neither begin nor end a paragraph.