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Questions:

1. Finish the following phrase by quoting from the Preface of the text assigned to you: "The borderlands are present wherever..."
2. What, in Anzaldúa's own words, are some of the negatives and positives of living in the borderlands?
3. In the first poem assigned to you-"El sonavabitche"- the speaker tells the story of whom? The "sonavabitche" is who exactly?
4. Who is the speaker, or interlocutor, to the "sonavabitche" and what exactly is the speaker's relation to the migrant workers in the poem?
5. How are migrant workers depicted in this poem? What are some of the hardships they face?
6. "We Call Them Greasers," the second poem assigned to you, is a piece about what?
7. Who is the speaker in this poem?
8. What sorts of graphic historical violence over people of Mexican descent does this poem evoke?
9. In what sense is this poem, much like "El sonavabitche," an attempt to rewrite the history of the United States?
10. Listen to the recitation of "To live in the Borderlands means you," the third poem from the selection assigned to you:
11. This poem is not so much that as much as it is what?
12. How does this poem challenge your identity? Or does it not? Explain yourself.
13. We often think of nations as "fixed" and "stable" entities. How does Anzaldua's poem about the borderlands bring that into question.
14. Why, in a course about Latin America, should one read Anzaldúa--that is, an author born in the United States? What would Anzaldúa say about this very question? Explain yourself by referencing the concept of the "borderlands".