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Essay Assignment - Navigating Multiple Identities
Purpose/Goals - This assignment will help students exercise the course Student Learning Objectives, as listed on the course syllabus:
1) Use literary terminology and basic critical theory to discuss, analyze, synthesize, and interpret Chicano literary works in various genres.
2) Write evidence-based literary analyses of Chicano literature demonstrating close reading and interpretive skills, logical reasoning, and argumentative strategies.
3) Analyze how Chicano/a literary texts portray struggle, resistance, social justice, solidarity, and/or liberation, and how the texts engage with anti-racist issues, practices, and movements to build a diverse, just, and equitable society.
Instructions - From the list of the following texts choose 1 to 2 assigned reading(s) to answer ONE of the following questions to address and answer in 3-to-5-page essay.
Texts for Essay 1: Choose 1 to 2
Film: When Worlds Collide
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
"Yo Soy Joaquin" / "I Am Joaquin" by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
"1 The Homeland, Aztlan" from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
"2 Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan" from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
"3 Entering into the Serpent" from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
Prompt Questions - Choose ONE
What does your text(s) reveal about the process of coming to terms with an individual and/or social identity as a Chicanx person?
What does your text(s) reveal about the challenges or limits to defining a Chicanx identity?
What does your text(s) reveal about the Chicanx identity's relationship to a colonial and indigenous past?
Present and answer your own question about how your chosen text(s) relates to the Chicanx identity or experience. I suggest you run ideas by me so we can work together to create a clear focus for your essay.