Week 8

I think one of the most interesting components of this week’s readings is how close many of the events are reminiscent of current affairs and events. A huge part of this week’s readings that I caught on with is the dissonance between classes and groups of people (immigrants vs. native). Reading Dawson’s text from chapter 1, 2, etc. denotes a threadline of the story of Latin America, one that is riddled with struggle and violence. 

I appreciated that the text supplies us with 4 pieces perceiving the subject of revolution through different forms of text. I suppose out of the 4, I enjoyed the poem the most, as it surrounds itself with allusion and reference, along with being quite the political piece of work it is. Though the other 4 pieces are ostensibly more particular with opinion/facts, I just appreciate the implementation of opinion/facts through the medium of literature and all of it’s devices. I’m a big fan of poetry, what came to my mind upon reading the poem is Carlos Bulosan’s “I Want the Wide American Earth”. Bulosan’s a writer and poet from the Philippines, which, to me, has aspects that echo a lot of sentiments of Latin America. 

http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/2017/01/20/poem-for-today-carlos-bulosan-i-want-the-wide-american-earth/ (The poem)

which of the 4 pieces of reading material affect you the most? if not, whyso?