ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Coatlicue, Chicano Nationalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3040
• Professor: Pablo Ramirez

Document Summary

For cisneros, the house on mango street you should try and address a few short stories not told in class. Space as : private/public, barrio, domestic spaces, space of writing (rodriguez conflated this with the public realm, not always material. Ethnicity defined at the beginning of this course was as a choice, while race was not a choice but placed by society on you. Is nostalgic for his lost private sphere: contains spanish, the family, and chicano ethnicity. Rodriguez sees mobility as easy (contrasts cisneros: but only if you give something up (ex private sphere) Argues there is no real working class literature, when you get a public voice you can no longer represent those in the working class. Spanish can never be a public language, expresses intimacy. Mourns that as an educated and english speaking he can no longer connect to parents (happens when english is introduced to his house)