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The many languages of english 301 - Coggle Diagram
The many languages of english 301
The language of Belonging & Otherness
Assimilation as Erasure
Jamila Osman’s “A Map of Lost Things” and Viet Thanh Nguyen's “On Being a Refugee...”
Guilt of Survival ("lines in the dirt")
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” The polite fiction of maps: Jamila Osman’s “A Map of Lost Things” "Maps are polite fiction and don’t mark things like genocide"
The Polite ficiton of Maps
Out of sight, Out of mind
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”
The language of the Body & Autonomy
The Very Real Violence of the "Husband Stitch"
The Green Ribbon as the Private Self
Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch” (representing the boundary that society demands women give up).
Reclaiming the Physical Body Through Spoken Word
Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X.
The Language of Memory & Inheritance
Sensory Language (Food, Nature)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite and Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons” (using food as a bridge to cultural memory).
Generational Ties
Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City” and Lucille Clifton’s “god’s mood.”
Finding Homes in Sentimental Items rather than Physical Places
Robin Wall Kimmerer's “Skywoman Falling” and Nezhukumatathil’s work (finding "home" in plants, food, and inherited traditions rather than a physical coordinate).
Environmental Connection
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Skywoman Falling” / “The Council of Pecans” and Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s “The Hunted, the Haunted, the Hungry, the Tame.”
The Language of the Resistance & Liberation
Accessible Language vs. Academic Elitism
bell hooks' “Theory as Liberatory Practice”
Anger as an Organizing Tool
Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of Anger” and “The Master’s Tools...”
Breaking Silence
Audre Lorde’s “a litany for survival” (and touches on Claude McKay's “If We Must Die”).
Collective Liberation
bell hooks' “Theory as Liberatory Practice”
