Dominican

Part 1

Compare or contrast the short stories Halfie by Ana Maurine Lara and How to Date… by Junot Díaz. 1 page double space Times New Roman

Part 2

After discussing Silvio Torres Saillant´s article, “The Tribulation of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity”, we are going to move this conversation to the Dominican diaspora. With this purpose, this week I have assigned two readings: “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie)” by Junot Díaz, included in his collection of stories Drown, and “Halfie” by Ana Maurine Lara, published in the anthology edited by Erika M Martínez, Daring to Write. Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. University of Georgia Press: 2015.

This week just post one comment and one reply.
Select two questions and start the discussion:

1. “How to Date a Brown Girl” and “Halfie” are intertwined. Actually, Lara wrote her story to contest to Díaz, which add the gender component to the conversation. Which scenes in these stories bring up the question of gender?
2. From which point of view are the texts written, and why do you think this is important?
3. In Díaz´s story, how is masculinity represented? Could you also identify other topics in the text?
4. How do you perceive the relationship between María and Angel. How do they see each other? Do you think that Maria was prejudice? Why yes or not.
5. Share your opinion about any scene that caught your attention in both readings.

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