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301 Analysis of Literary Language :confetti_ball:, The First Real San…
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The Hunted, the Haunted, the Hungry, the Tame (Kolluri)
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"Since you black, don't stick around...
cross the line, they count you out."
- Civil Rights: speaking to complex social rights issues in black communities
"They think I lost. I think I won."
- Reclaiming power: calling defensive action a game of survival,
speaker wins in the end (empowering the audience)
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"walk the sugarcane fields my father once cut, drive down the road where my mother once peddled guavas to pay for textbooks..."
"still trying to reach that unreachable island within the island"
- Family and Immigrant: reflecting on family's immigration experiences and his own relationship to Cuba, exploring guilt, family role and personal identity confusion
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"I was cold once. So my father took off his blue sweater...the sweater he wore to America."
- Family: navigating confusing relationship to his father and their different perspectives
- Immigrant: trying to understand his immigrant father's experience and feelings
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"he is tired of waiting for his teeth to bite him and walk away."
- Enlightenment: Revelation about God's examples/behavior, seeing God as angry and emotional
"these daughters are bone, they break."
- Feminism: exploring religious guilt and gendered expectations
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"He sheds, with his pajamas, shabby days...would you deny him lavender or take away the power of pine?"
- Reclaiming power and Civil Rights: pushing image of a thriving black man, fighting racist stereotypes and messages of the time
- Three pages long to emphasize her message
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"when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard...so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"
- Civil Rights and reclaiming power: Encouraging black/minority communities to take action, acknowledging harm but advocating for change in attitude after history of apathy
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"...in the same way I have had to use learning to express my anger for my growth. " (278)
- Sense of self: Using personal stories and feelings as appeal in her argument
"To all the white women here who recognize these attitudes as familar...to my sisters of Color who like me still tremble their rage under harness" (280)
- Feminism: Asking for woman audience to make change, seeking intersectionality among women
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"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than forces of change." (112)
- Feminist and Civil Rights: Calling women to action (embracing intersectional identities), combatting negative societal expectations and powers, critiquing current feminist tactics
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"Work by women of color and marginalized groups...even if that work enables and promotes feminist practice, is often de-legitimized in academic settings." (4)
- Feminism: Calling attention to race and social dynamics that effect successful feminist practice
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"refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one's home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed." (213)
- Family and Immigrant: Addressing multiple social identities assumed as a refugee, unpacking complicated family issues, addressing social perceptions of refugees
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"Maps held a type of magic for my father."
- Family: Discussing difficult emotions around family troubles and relations, mapping her family history to better understand her place within it
"Even here in the land of my ancestors, I wear my foreignness like an ill-fitting dress."
- Immigrant: Reflecting on idea of "home" as child of immigrant parents, seeking sense of self in the "in between"
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"So much was scattered along the trail. Graves of half the people. Language. Knowledge. Names." (13)
- Family: Sharing her Indigenous history, telling stories to memorialize her family
- Family themes in different forms throughout the story (Skywoman, trees, etc.)
"After all, that's the whole point of nuts: to provide the embryo with all that is needed to start a new life." (13)
- Food: Food and plants as both survival and ingenuity, importance of food as tradition/stories
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"'They had turkey on San Giving, not carne puerco and platanos. We are americanos like them now in the United States.'" (22)
- Immigrant, Childhood, and Food: Using food as a form of integrating into American society, inability to see the struggles of immigrant family members-- stronger interest in assimilating with American culture
- food is an accessible way to do so
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"While I was learning how to nourish and care for another while he was still forming inside of me, I offered up the fruit that was offered up to me by both of my parents..." (13)
- Family and Food: emphasis on food bringing family closer together despite challenges, food as a universal language and a marker of family history
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"For that's a unity of economics, he said to himself. And this a unity of music, a 'gut language'" (143)
- Reclaiming power: Fitting in with Wales' society as a black soldier, more progressive social atmosphere
"When the light struck his injured eye, it was as though it were being peeled by an invisible hand." (140)
- Enlightenment: Battle between light and dark imagery representing Mr. Catti's mental turbulence, seeing a better way of life
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"It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language...They ate pickled mangoes with their meals, ate rice every night for supper with their hands." (2)
- Family, Childhood, Immigration, and Food: Seeing unity in the world instead of division, not understanding the larger conflict (childish lens), seeing food as a point of unity and connection (including the candies later on)
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"I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them." (3)
- Feminism: Conflicting the concepts of boundaries and purity, exploring gendered insecurity/apathy, emphasizing intensity of gendered power dynamics
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"but in the mirror there are only girls looking at one another, eager and afraid of growing into women." (189)
- Feminism and childhood: Growing up as a girl in a dysfunctional male-dominated society, defining womanhood and figuring out identity
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"The ice is blue...The snow is white...I am gray...And I will follow the whale." (107)
- Reclaiming power and Enlightenment: breaking away from the pack (literal and metaphorical), going against societal expectations, finding power from a different leader/exploring "self" beyond the "we"
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"That my poetry has become something I'm proud of. The way the words say what I mean...how they connect with people. How they build community." (287)
- Childhood and Sense of self: Building confidence in her identity, separating what others say versus who she is, making positive change as she grows up
"This is what a cuero looks like: A regular girl." (205)
Feminism: Understanding girlhood in between negative body comments and difficult gendered expectations, strained relationship with her mother (main woman in power for Xiomara)
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Color Key:
Green- Main themes
(Texts float around)
Purple-- Secondary themes
(direct connection)
Yellow-- text connections
(direct connection)
Orange-- Texts
Red -- Quotes
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