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Latinx Literature (Gender (Manhood/Fatherhood (Absent fathers are in the…
Latinx Literature
Gender
Manhood/Fatherhood
Absent fathers are in the majority of the texts. Showing how woman are at the center of each household.
Piri and his father's relationship shows Piri how to be a "man". Likewise, the brother in "We the Animals" have the same role model. However, in Piri's case, he becomes a father and isn't much of one.
Role of Woman/Motherhood
In, "Borderlands/La Frontera", "Make Your Home Among Strangers", "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", there is the overlooming expectation that woman must become mothers or be will to take on that responsibility. They must be homemakers and serve the men in their household.
Sacrifice "The Husband Stitch", "Make Your Home Among Strangers"
LGBTQ+ Experiences
Positive
"Then Lina started kissing Ma all over, little soft kisses, covering Ma's whole face with them, even her nose and eyebrows. Them she put her lips on Ma's lips." (Torres 32)
After the narrator's family finds his journal and he has a psychotic break saying his family, "the wilder I became, the more they retreated into their love for me" (Torres 118)
Negative
"I heard the last sounds of Alfredo's anger beating out against La Vieja - blap, blap, blap - and the faggot's wail, "Ayeeeee, no heet me, no heet-" (Thomas 61)
Pornography viewed by narrator in "We the Animals"
Piri's sexual assault(Thomas 61)
Violence
Race/Color
Rejection
Juno Diaz's use of the zombie to address how blackness is viewed, the disese being called "la negrura".
Calling of one's blackness "ugly", Piri's denial of being afro-latino
Embrace
Julia de Burgos' poem "Ay,ay,ay", embracing the blackness and all the traits of an afro-latina
Gender Violence
Sexual Violence
"Down These Mean Streets", "We The Animals", "The House on Mango Street", "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
Domestic Violence
"How she survived I'll never know. They beat her like she was a slave. Like she was a dog. Let men pass over actual violence and report instead on the damage inflicted: her clavicle, chicken boned; her right humerus, a triple fracture (she would never again have much strength in that arm)" (Diaz 147)
"He told us the dentist had been punching on her after she went under; he said that's how they loosen up the teeth" (Torres 12)
LGBTQ+
Poverty
The american dream isn't what it seems. "Puerto Rican Obituary", "Make Your Home Among Strangers", "The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", "Alan, American Dreamer", "The House on Mango Street", "We the Animals", "The Shape of Water"
LLeno de trabajadores, working hard to get out of poverty. "Puerto Rican Obituary", "Alan, American Dreamer", "The House on Mango Street", "We the Animals"
Family
Duty
Liset's mother's loyalty to Ariel's family, the hive mind of the Cuban community when Ariel comes to the United States.
The relationship of the brothers in "We the Animals" and even the mother and father, show the need to remain loyal to family, there is a strength in number like a pride of lion.
Connection
The narrator in "We the Animals" and use of the collective "we" through out the novel, until its very end
Piri's feelings toward his parents due to his differences in appearance, trying to find was to connect with his family.
Belong
Inclusion
"Affective communities and millennial desires:Latinx, or why my computer won't recognize Latina/o", shows how the term Latinx itself is to include all orientations rather than use the highly gendered a/o.
Assimilation
Acceptance
"Ode to a Grasshopper", "Make Your Home Among Strangers", "American", "Alan, American Dreamer"
Rejection
"Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2)"
The Wound of Colonialism