15 Aug Question 2
How do you (personally) think people of mixed origins, bilingual, bicultural people can use their mixed cultural identity to their advantage? What are the disadvantages, if any, of this bicultural or multicultural heritage? Make a list for advantages and another for disadvantages
Readings
1. The Era of Discovery
2. Chronicles or Memoirs written by Spanish explorers and settlers.
3. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
4. The colonial Period.
5. The Oral Tradition Indigenous Profile
6. La Llorona
7. The Prize of Freedom
8. The Value of Family Familia
9. My name
10. Tales Told Under the Mango Tree.
11. Coming of Age: the frontier between two different worlds
12. From the Greatest Performance
13. Migrants and Exiles
14. Borinkins in Hawaii
15. Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon
16. Constructing the Self
17. The Angel Juan Moncho
18. Womanhood versus Manhood
19. Filomena
20. Nilda
21. La doctora Barr
22. Bilingual poetry (examples by these authors): Tato Laviera, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Josefina Baez
