The Brodkey essay

This essay was one of the 1st that I found to be a bit confusing. Our group focused on several questions for our discussion. We tried to determine exactly what discursive subject and discursive resistance are. We also wondered why she used such academic terms toward the beginning of the essay, but then toned it down later in the essay. Based on my understainding, discourse is anything longer that a sentence, or, in lingustic terms, anything longer than a t-unit. A discourse community is a group of people that assemble through language, e.g. grad students, baseball fans, and the Republican Party. This clarification helped me to better understand these terms and the essay.