Which Writer Is Cuban-American?
• Post-modernism
After war world 2-reflects modernists cycle of disillusionment alienation
• Metafiction
Readers always aware that they are in a fiction characters know that they are in a story
• Anti-hero
A protagonist who lacks heroic virtues and qualities.
Ex: Leroy from Lowlands
• Motif
Repeated word or image
Ex: BIRDS are a motif in the Aguero Sisters
• Button
-Cisneros' own term for a detailed image/short scene can be inserted into similar stories
• Magical realism
Fantasy detail integrated with realistic events
• Prose poem
Piece of writing in "prose" whose poetic qualities including intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, and imagery self-evident
• Biographical information—
Which writer was involved in the 1950s with the Beats? Robert Stone …show more content…
Sandra Cisneros Which writer is Cuban-American? Cristina García
Which writer served in Vietnam? Tim O’Brien Which writers were not born in the U.S.? Denis Hale Johnson, Cristina Garcia
Which writer identifies as Chicana? Sandra Cisneros
• Be able to identify characters, including the following:
David Todd and Johnny Ever; announcer that 'talks' to David in the radio
Leroy; narrator and anti-hero of "From the Lowlands", created electronics in the 1960's which resulted in becoming Ignacio and Blanca Agüero; Father and mother of Reina Reina Agüero; protagonist of "The Aguero Sisters"
Rachel, main character in "eleven" who is upset about a red sweater in her class.
Salvador, small, poor child trying to go to school with his younger brothers Cleófilas, abused women in WHC by her husband Lupe, narrator in Bien Pretty
Flavio the man-eater that cheats on Lupe
• Where did the title of Jesus’ Son come from? Woman Hollering Creek?
• What is a theme of “July ‘69”?
What is real vs what is not real?
Guilt vs forgiveness
Of “Beverly
After war world 2-reflects modernists cycle of disillusionment alienation
• Metafiction
Readers always aware that they are in a fiction characters know that they are in a story
• Anti-hero
A protagonist who lacks heroic virtues and qualities.
Ex: Leroy from Lowlands
• Motif
Repeated word or image
Ex: BIRDS are a motif in the Aguero Sisters
• Button
-Cisneros' own term for a detailed image/short scene can be inserted into similar stories
• Magical realism
Fantasy detail integrated with realistic events
• Prose poem
Piece of writing in "prose" whose poetic qualities including intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, and imagery self-evident
• Biographical information—
Which writer was involved in the 1950s with the Beats? Robert Stone …show more content…
Sandra Cisneros Which writer is Cuban-American? Cristina García
Which writer served in Vietnam? Tim O’Brien Which writers were not born in the U.S.? Denis Hale Johnson, Cristina Garcia
Which writer identifies as Chicana? Sandra Cisneros
• Be able to identify characters, including the following:
David Todd and Johnny Ever; announcer that 'talks' to David in the radio
Leroy; narrator and anti-hero of "From the Lowlands", created electronics in the 1960's which resulted in becoming Ignacio and Blanca Agüero; Father and mother of Reina Reina Agüero; protagonist of "The Aguero Sisters"
Rachel, main character in "eleven" who is upset about a red sweater in her class.
Salvador, small, poor child trying to go to school with his younger brothers Cleófilas, abused women in WHC by her husband Lupe, narrator in Bien Pretty
Flavio the man-eater that cheats on Lupe
• Where did the title of Jesus’ Son come from? Woman Hollering Creek?
• What is a theme of “July ‘69”?
What is real vs what is not real?
Guilt vs forgiveness
Of “Beverly