How do Tan, Song, and Danticat use the idea of diaspora in their writings?

1. Choose two of the writers for this week and discuss how they address the concept of family. How do the writers critique/reinforce/question the idea of the traditional family? What constraints does family place on everyday life? What alternatives to the traditional family do they offer? READINGS ARE BELOW !!!!!!!

The Feminist Manifesto

https://oncomouse.github.io/loy/feminist.html

William Carlos Williams

This is Just to Say

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say

Katherine Anne Porter

Flowering Judas

http://www.vitaeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/Porter-Katherine-Anne-Flowering-Judas.pdf

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

2. Pick two of the writers you read this week and explain how they engage with the idea of media–broadly defined. READINGS ARE BELOW !!!!!!!!!

Amiri Baraka

Somebody Blew Up America

https://genius.com/Amiri-baraka-somebody-blew-up-america-annotated

Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/diving-wreck

A Supermarket in California

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california

Allen Ginsberg

Howl

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

Zora Neal Hurston

How it Feels to be Colored Me

http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf

3. Discuss how three of the writers this week engage with the idea of markets. Remember “market” is not just an idea associated with monetary exchange but can be an exchange of any kinds of good–even conceptual and emotional ones. READINGS ARE BELOW

Thomas Pynchon
Entropy: https://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~cabrera/teaching/Entropy%20de%20Pynchon.pdf

Don DeLillO White Noise (read only first chapter)

http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/cpozzobon/Downloads_files/WHITE%20NOISE.pdf

Brett Easton Ellis
American Psycho (read only first chapter)

https://fi.ge.pgstatic.net/attachments/31459_98aec97b2c764e6c831f6963f8441f27.pdf

Sharon Olds
Sex Without Love

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sharon_olds/poems/19521

Alice Walker
Everyday Use

https://www.acpsd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=6626&dataid=60620&FileName=everyday_use_full-text.pdf

4.Choose two of the writers from this week and discuss how they engage the idea of identity in its multiple formulations. READINGS ARE BELOW !!!!!!!

Art Spiegelman

Maus: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/maus-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history-by-art-spiegelman.pdf

Nathan Englander

What We We Talk About when we talk about Anne Frank: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank

5. Discuss how race plays into at least 2 of the texts for this week. READINGS ARE BELOW!!!!!

Toni Morrison

Recitatif: https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf

Junot Diaz

Drown: https://eng1301blog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/junot-diaz-drown.pdf

Sherman Alexie

What You Pawn I Will Redeem: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street: (READ FIRST CHAPTER ONLY): https://mrperrysclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/the-house-on-mango-street.pdf

6. How do Tan, Song, and Danticat use the idea of diaspora in their writings? Do they present complex or simplified notions of geographical movement? READINGS ARE BELOW!!!!!!!

Amy Tan

Two Kinds: http://www.gimnazija-vnazora-zd.skole.hr/upload/gimnazija-vnazora-zd/images/static3/975/File/Two_Kinds_-_Tan_full_text%20docx(4%20razred).pdf

Cathy Song

Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cathy-song

Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9262.pdf

7. How do the three writers in this model conceive of gender? Is it fluid? Empowering? Destructive? Think about the ways their characters express navigating gender in everyday life.

Allison Bechdel

Fun Home: https://readgraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2016/09/read-fun-home-family-tragicomic-chapter-1-page-1.html

Audre Lorde

Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

Lucille Clifton

Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton

How do Tan, Song, and Danticat use the idea of diaspora in their writings?
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