30 Oct What does Almas life tell us about melancholic subjectivity? How have loss and melancholy shaped the Hispano community in Tierra Amarilla and the Hispañola Valley? How does Garcia be
Please see the attachment. You have to read chapter 2 and answer the four questions in the folder that name is Week6_Class11.
Angela Garcia
The Pastoral Clinic
Chapter 2
People, Places and Concepts
Alma
Relapse
Descanos
Melancholic subjectivity
Tierra Amarilla
Structure of feeling
Los Alamos National Laboratory
David
Joseph and Ricky
1. What does Alma’s life tell us about “melancholic subjectivity”? What does Alma mean when she says “Es que lo que tengo no termina” [It’s just that what I have has no end?], and how does this affect her life and how she views the future?
2. How have loss and melancholy shaped the Hispano community in Tierra Amarilla and the Hispañola Valley? How does Garcia believe these experiences relate to heroin use in the region?
3. Why does Alma respond to evangelicalism as a path forward in her struggle with addiction?
