Memoria Is a Friend of Ours: On The Discourse of Color1

College English Sep 2004

Memoria Is a Friend of Ours: On The Discourse of Color1

Victor Villanueva

Abstract

The author takes us back through his own and his family’s stories and histories to suggest that while academic discourse can be cognitively powerful it needs to be supplemented by memory and story, in our classrooms and in our scholarship. Memoria, mother of the muses, complements academic discourse’s strengths in logos and in ethos with pathos, providing an essential element in the rhetorical triangle, and, crucially, validating the experiences of people of color that might otherwise be silenced.

Journal: College English
Published: 2004-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20044056
Open Access: Closed
Topics: argument

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