Readings for Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Please read the following materials:

"Ethnic Writing/Writing Ethnicity: The Critical Conceptualization of Chicano Identity," by Dean Franco (from Post Identity, 2.1 (Winter 1999) 104-122). (Scroll down volume index to click directly onto article).

"Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism," by Alberto Moreiras (from The Cultures of Globalization, eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi).

The following materials are full-text articles which can be located via Project Muse, in the USD Library Research Databases. To access the articles, Click Here to go to USD's library page, click to the Research Databases link in the right column, and then type in Project Muse in the Search by Database prompt. (If you are working off-campus, note that you will be prompted for your Network ID and Password prior to being given access to the Research Databases). Once in Project Muse, you can search for the articles using title or author's last name, etc. The articles are available in both HTML and PDF format:

"The Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity," by Silvio Torres-Saillant (from Callaloo, 23.3 (2000) 1086-1111).

"A Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents," by William Luis (from Callaloo, 23.3 (2000) 839-849).

"Remaking Identity, Unmaking Nation: Historical Recovery and the Reconstruction of Community in In the Time of the Butterflies and The Farming of Bones," by Lynn Chun Ink (from Callaloo, 27.3 (2004) 788-807).