Reading Response No. 19

Summary:
In his article "Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color," Victor Villanueva attemps to explain the writing concept of memoria to his audience. Memoria uses greek philosophies of logic, emotion, and credibility, and helps to expose information about the author's heritage. He does this by examining texts that use memoria. He uses the concept of memoria to introduce the concept of colonial discourse; which is between natives and their conquerors. This is often between two different races, which is the point that the author wants to make.

Synthesis:
The only article I can think to relate this one to is the article we read by Wardle about discourse in the workplace. Both aricles bring new meaning to discourse by exploring new situations that discourse community can be related to.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
7. Villanueva's primary discourse community would be his family, and his secondary discourse would be his public life outside of the home.

Personal Response:
I thought that this article was really interesting because, as I've said before, it relates yet another topic to discourse community that I never considered. It tells me that pretty much anything can be classified as a discourse community, and the term doesn't only apply to academia.