ENGL 4450
SINGLE OR DUAL AUTHOR:
CHERRíE MORAGA AND ANA CASTILLO
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COURSE DOCUMENTSTHEORY IN THE FLESH ASSIGNMENT
MARCH 3, REVIEW FOR THE MIDTERMSyllabus
Syllabus Agreement DUE Mon. 01/27
SAMPLE EXPLICATION ASSIGNMENT AND SAMPLE ESSAY
EXPLICATION ONE: DUE 2/10
EXPLICATION TWO: DUE 3/3 (at the beginning of class)
EXPLICATION THREE: DUE 4/7 (at the beginning of class)
EXPLICATION FOUR: DUE 4/30
First assignment: Chicano! documentary response paper
WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY during our first class period AND WRITE A ONE-PAGE RESPONSE (double-spaced). What was most interesting about the documentary for you? What did you learn? To what new perspectives, politics, or history did the documentary introduce you?
IF YOU MISSED THE SCREENING OR YOU WANT TO WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY AGAIN, IT IS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: |
READINGS / PDFs"Loverboys" by Ana Castillo for class on Mon 4/28
Paula Moya, "Who We Are and From Where We Speak"
Corky González, "I Am Joaquin"
Gloria Anzaldúa, "now let us shift..."
Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Poem for a Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between the Races" (follow the link or download file below)
Walter Mignolo, "On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System" and "Preface to the 2012 Edition"
Excerpt from Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies (please read "Foreword" and "Chapter 3"):
Selections from The Last Generation
"'Racism is not intellectual:' Interracial Friendship, Multicultural Literature, and Decolonizing Epistemologies" by Paula Moya
Ana Castillo essays from Massacre of the Dreamers
Watsonville by Cherríe Moraga
The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea by Cherríe Moraga
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