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Synopsis Our Share of Night is a story of a father and son, both engulfed in remarkable grief over the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both adored. A father, desperate to protect and withhold his son from…
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, in Collected Stories(Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1968/1981) This story begins with a couple of kids playing by the seashore. They see a large object wash up shore, to discover they have found themselves in the…
SYPNOSIS: How the Garcia girls lost their accent is the story that follows four sisters who immigrate from the Dominican Republic to the United States as teenagers setting in 1960s during the dictatorship of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. “The…
Bilingual Sestina by Julia Alvarez For this poem, Alvarez strategically chose to write in a Sestina format. The sestina is a poetic form containing six stanzas, each with six lines, followed by an envoi (or “tornada”) of three lines. The…
Border Boy by Alberto Rios Through vivid imagery, Rios captures the emotional challenges immigrants endure when crossing the border. I believe the boy in the poem has grown up, residing near the border, and through his eyes have witness pivotal…
Monstrance Man by Ricardo Pau-Llosa This poem seems to come from the perspective of a resentful, bitter, and frightened boy. He’s having trouble assimilating to a new language. His older sister does what she can to help him. While he’s…
“Introduction: The Politics of Language from Multiple Perspectives: Latinidad and Indigenidad,” in Chiricu Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (Serafin M. Coronel-Molina, 2017) The United States has been known to be a melting pot of diverse languages, cultures and practices.…
“Speaking for Others: Problems of Representation” in On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity (Marta Caminero Santangelo, 2007) What is representation? For most of my life I’ve always considered the meaning of the word to be a…
Beginnings from Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar This passage starts off on a gentle tone, recalling bits, and pieces of a journey that the migrant tells with optimism in their eyes. How proud they appear when recalling details, even…
SYPNOSIS: How the Garcia girls lost their accent is the story that follows four sisters who immigrate from the Dominican Republic to the United States as teenagers setting in 1960s during the dictatorship of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. “The…
