Book of Unknown Americans
The Riveras move to Delaware so that their daughter can attend a specific school to help with this condition she is experiencing.
What is a brain injury?
This text is set in Delaware.
What is The Book of Unknown Americans?
This is the author of "Bilingual Sestina?"
Who is Julia Alvarez?
The play relies heavily on the storyline of this Puccini opera to develop the themes of Orientalism and misogyny.
What is Madame Butterfly?
The poet Ocean Vuong invokes this deceased rapper to convey a sense of loss and impending death in his poem "Not Even This."
Who is Lil' Peep?
This character worries about the way police will treat him if he is pulled over while driving his new car.
Who is Rafa?
This literary term means an attempt to compare two different things or ideas without using the terms "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
Several Latinx texts we read take on the theme of this Spanish term for hypermasculinity.
What is machismo?
Gallimard is put on trial for this crime in France.
What is espionage (spying)?
Southeast Asian authors like Jhumpa Lahiri often have to fight against the idea that Indians are considered this kind of minority in the U.S.
What is a model minority?
This event prompts the Maribel and Alma to move back to Mexico.
What is Arturo's death?
This writer received a B.A., two M.A.s, and a PhD before has winning many awards for her short stories and novels, like the acclaimed The Namesake.
Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
In a poem of the same name, Martin Espada uses the Spanish term "alabanza," which means this in English.
What is praise?
At the end of the play, this character is dressed as a butterfly.
Who is Gallimard?
In Ocean Vuong's poem "Not Even This," the poet grapples with how the aftermath of this conflict affected his personal identity.
What is the Vietnam War?
This song symbolizes the limited perspective that White Americans have about LatinX immigrants.
This text tells the story of a woman struggling to leave an abusive husband.
What is "Woman Hollering Creek?"
In "Woman Hollering Creek," Cleòfilas dreams that a new married life in America will be like these shows.
What are telenovelas?
The scenes depicting the Peking opera in the play provide an example of this dramatic tactic, often identified with the phrase "play within a play."
What is metatheater?
In "A Temporary Matter," Shukumar and Shoba are suffering marital problems after experiencing what event?
What is the loss of their child?
The novel is told from multiple points of view, but these two characters most often act as narrators.
Who are Mayor and Alma?
This French style of poetry consists of six stanzas with six lines each and a final three-line stanza call an envoi.
What is a sestina?
The poem "Alabanza" is dedicated to food service workers who died in this event.
What is 9/11?
Some events in the play take place in the 1960s amid this communist movement in China under Mao Zedong.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
In "A Temporary Matter," who are the Bradfords in relation to Shukumar and Shoba?
What are neighbors?