Cheerie Moranga's The Hungry Woman explores a surreal histrionic borderlands between fact and fiction. Playing upon the story of Medea, Cheerie's story utilizes already understood stereotypes to quickly articulate the situation. The stereotypes being the old Meixcan story of "The Weeping Woman" described in Anzaldua. Also the classic Greek story of Medea. In the spirit of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Night, old stories and mythos are turned upside down to articulate a purely latino/latina struggle in American society.
In 1890 , the McKinley Tariff began to cause a recession in the islands by withdrew the safeguards ensuring a mainland market for Hawaiian sugar . American interests in Hawaii began to consider annexation for Hawaii to re-establish an economic competitive position for sugar . In 1893 , Queen Liliuokalani sought to empower herself and Hawaiians through a new constitution which she herself had drawn up and now desired to promulgate as the new law of the land .It was Queen Liliuokalani ‘s right as a sovereign to issue a new constitution through an edict from the throne
Stephanie Cline GKE3 April 12, 2015 GKE3- Discuss the rise of colonialism in North America, and how the indigenous people reacted. Colonialism began with a trip on The Tiger, The Robuck, The Red Lion, The Elizabeth, or The Dorothy and sailing to Roanoke, in North Carolina. When Roanoke was established is 1585, Queen Elizabeth I wanted expansion of England. This unclaimed land was perfect for this expansion. Colonialism continued until the 1700s.
Hector Perez talks about Paredes’ novel titled George Washington Gomez. He tells how the novel reveals the dispute on the border of Mexico-Texas. The article also gives information about the Mexico-Texas border. The source is useful because it discusses Paredes’ Mexican culture and the problems they are having with Texas. Paredes is a true fighter for the rights of Mexican culture.
“The House on Mango Street” I decided to write about this book because as a Mexican I can identify many circumstances that the main character “Esperanza” has to face. In Sandra Cisneros novel, The House on Mango Street, tells the history of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in a Latino section of Chicago, whose neighborhood is one or harsh realities and beauty. In the next three paragraphs I will mention how hope, sadness, and waiting are three primary elements involved in this novel. Hope is a principal ingredient in this novel because it is latent in Esperanza’s desires. Esperanza always knew her aspirations and goals.
The Case Against Bilingualism Jennifer Smith Faulkner University James Murphy September 24, 2012The Case Against Bilingualism “The Case Against Bilingualism”, although written by Trudy J. Sundberg many years ago, still makes many poignant arguments about what it means to be an American. She looks at what it means to be an American, and also why we are a unique culture in and of ourselves. The United States is a country of great diversity, and English is the glue that holds our uniquely multicultural country together. The English language is what makes it’s people American regardless of national origin. Sundberg, uses James Michener’s novel Texas to give illustration to the argument against bilingualism and any legislation there of and pertaining to bilingual education.
CCS 105F Winter 2014 Sandra Ruiz 03/12/14 The Write Way to Fight for Social Change At the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, Chicana and Latina authors really made a move for social change through their texts. The term Chicana typically refers to Mexican women who were born and/or raised in the United States. Their literary works, whether it was directly or indirectly, addressed issues such as those of citizenship, education, and most of all sexuality. Three texts that offer a lot to talk about on these topics are Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves: A Comedy, Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue, and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican. By writing about discrimination and issues faced by many Latinos, especially/ Latinas,
HSP 3085 02/22/12 History of US-Mexico Relations Julia Bondar Response Paper # 1 5. Feminine iconography: women’s contribution to Mexican culture. Literature on the live and thoughts of Mexicans contributes a lot of its context to the feminine image in Mexican culture. Similarly to the Western world, where women are being categorized as either disobedient Eve from the bible or Virginal Mary, the Mexican women are permitted to have two roles. In this example, the role of Malinche, who is considered traitor and mistress of Cortes the conqueror, or the role of Lady Guadalupe, who is on the other hand rendered as innocent and pure, playing important role for the human salvation.
African presence 1 Afro- Mexicans Blanca Vazquez BLAS 140A African Presence 2 When we think of Mexico we have this idea of a Western-dominated world and for the most part a falsified creation of Spanish influence. In all history books the Europeans are looked at as the settlers and slave owners that made the American civilization and developed the Americas, however this has been proven to be unreal though substantial evidence. Much research has been done about the misconception that the first Africans to reach the Americas where slaves. The reality is that African culture impacted central America and we see it most emphasized in Mexican culture. Historical accounts, archaeological finds, and
In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, is debated on whether or not it is a feminist literature based off of the face that there are gender expectations in Mexican culture and her storyline portrays feminism as the theme throughout the book. My intake on this is that, Like Water for Chocolate is a piece of feminist literature for many reasons. First of all, all of the major and relevant characters in the novel are all female. For instance, all of the females living in Mama Elena’s house show that too. Also for example, throughout the novel Esquivel ‘feminizes’ the story by showing the community of all of the women in the house who were part of the preparation for food, and by this it reveals their class, race, and generation.