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How does he weave in his perception of race and racism in the united states?

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Essay #l: This is How You Lose Her
Your essay must be a MINIMUM of FOUR typed, double-spaced pages, MLA format. Your paper
must be in TIMES NEW ROMAN font (11pt or 12 pt. size) You must have a Work Cited page
which is a separate page, (on page 5 at minimum), which lists all of the sources you used
INCLUDING the book itself. Your paper must be in MLA format, please see the links for this:
https://libguides.ucc.edu/citations
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research and citation/mla_style/mlaformatting and style guide/mla
general format.html
For this essay you must incorporate the following:
A minimum of three stories from the book 1 his is How vou Lose Her. These cannot be the first
three stories in the book, i.e., “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” “Nilda,” “Alma.” You must
choose from different stories throughout the book from beginning to end. You may reference
MORE THAN three stories but the minimum is three.
One scholarly source (see Week 4).
3)
One video in which Junot Diaz 1s speaking, lecturing or being interviewed. You may choose
from the plethora of videos I have posted, or you may choose your own from Youtube.com.
You must have a MINIMUM of one quote per source.
This is a total of FIVE quotes (you may
have more than five). However, at minimum you must include one quote per story (3), one quote
from your scholarly source, one quote from the video. This equals a MINIMUM of five quotes.
You must have a Work Cited page which includes all of the sources you use for this paper.
You
mav have more than a total of THREE sources (book, scholarly source, video) if you choose.
however anv outside information vou use m vour aber must also be mcluded in vour W ork
Cited. NOTE: You only need to cite the book once in its entirety, you do not need to cite eact
story
Below are essays questions which you can use as GUIDELINES. You do not have to use any of the
questions below if you alreadv have an idea vou would like to write about. You can mix and match
questions. IT IS YOUR CHOICE. You do not have to answer all of the questions in the bullet. AGAIN,
these are guidelines to help you develop a clear, concise thesis
If you learned basic composition in English 101 of English 11/112, you should have a thesis statement in
your introduction which will cover ALL THREE STORIES. (See the sample in Week 4). Also please
refer to the GUIDELINES FOR WRITING COMPOSITIONAL ESSAYS
Essay
Choose any character in the text and analyze the character from an emotional. psychological.
psychosocial, psychoanalytic, or spiritual perspective. This does not have to focus solely on
Yunior, but can focus on several of the women in various stories, the mother, the absent father,
etc.
If you choose to focus on Yunior, rather than discuss the obvious, his cheating lifestyle, also
consider the ways that he transforms, changes, grows in maturity or diminishes in immaturitv
chronologically, socially or culturally.
Discuss one (or more) of Diaz’s
motits (See Week 2 PowerPoint Presentation)
For example
how does Diaz weave memorv throughout several stories and what is his intention in doing so?
Ur, as another example, how does Diaz construct a metacognitive, metanarrative, metalictive text
in which writing acts as a motif, strategy or theme in various stories? You may, as an example.
discuss how Daz constructs a text that serves as a memorv and/or tournal and/or novel that
documents Yunior S life and is also written by Yunior. What is the significance of this as it relates
to the action of the text in specific stories?
Focus on specific themes that Diaz refers to in his talks and lectures (See Week 1 or Week 2
Videos). How does he weave in his perception of race and racism in the United States? What are
his views on immigration in the US? These are just two examples; however, Diaz indicates that
he is focusing on many aspects of US society
and the ways in which it views, treats, discriminates
against people of color, immigrants, etc.
Discuss the concent of hvbridtv? and identity mn the text. In nostcolonial theorv. hvbridty reters
to a mixing of cultures, e.g., East and West. In what aspects 1S Diaz presenting hybrid characters
and/or a hybrid text? Examples are Dominican and American.
foreign and native, immigrant anc
citizen, English and Spanish. What is Diaz ultimately saying about living in the US but being of
Dominican or immigrant background? How does he critique this? You mav focus on a specific
character or the text overal.
*Hvbridity is a cross between two separate races or cultures. A hybrid is something that is mixed,
and hvbriditv IS Sumo V mixture.
Discuss space and environment as a necessarv element in the stories. Diaz focuses on several
places throughout the book, the Dominican Republic, U.S., New Jersey, New York, Boston, and
within this he gives more detail about specific places/spaces. Through the voice of Yunior we
learn that Magda is Cuban but lives in the Bergenline, Flaca is white from outside Paterson, Alma
is Dominican but from Hoboken and can’t speak Spanish nor “acts” traditionally Dominican.
Why is this important to the characterization of the women Y unior dates? Why is this important
for Diaz? What is the significance of this? How does Diaz use the landscape as
part of his
message about the immigrant experience? What do these spaces represent?
Discuss either masculinity and/or femininity in the text. How is this constructed by Diaz through
Yunior, Rafa, Papi, Mami? Based on Diaz’s own words, what does it mean to be Diasporic
Caribbean, African. Dominican, heteronormative? Within this you can discuss how or why
Yunior objectifies women and the significance of this OR you can do a character analysis of the
women themselves. One interesting analysis can be that of Mami. Is she in any way responsible
for Rafa’s and Yunior’s excessive, heteronormative masculinity? If so (or not) how so (or not)?

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