From Esperanza to Guero: Crossing the Border to Home
Title and/or Affiliation
Chair, Division of Professional Education, Notre Dame College
Presenter Bio
Sue Corbin has been been teaching in one capacity or another since 1973 on all grade levels from Kindergarten through graduate school. Her passion for children's literature grew from literature studies in college and having my own children. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the International Literacy Association.
Session
Panel: Sociocultural Constructions of Identity
Location
Zoom
Start Date
10-7-2022 11:00 AM
End Date
10-7-2022 12:15 PM
Abstract
This presentation will approach three novels (Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcias McCall, and They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles) from a sociocultural approach that will examine the effects of the hegemonous culture on minority groups who perceive the power of that culture as a nurturing entity. Borrowing from Niebuhr’s book titled The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (2011), the plights of the novels’ characters will be explored through an examination of the dichotomy of democracy as an ideal and as a reality. In Neibuhr’s view, “man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” What happens when those who seek justice are actually traumatized by the injustice of the democratic system of the United States?
From Esperanza to Guero: Crossing the Border to Home
Zoom
This presentation will approach three novels (Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcias McCall, and They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles) from a sociocultural approach that will examine the effects of the hegemonous culture on minority groups who perceive the power of that culture as a nurturing entity. Borrowing from Niebuhr’s book titled The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (2011), the plights of the novels’ characters will be explored through an examination of the dichotomy of democracy as an ideal and as a reality. In Neibuhr’s view, “man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” What happens when those who seek justice are actually traumatized by the injustice of the democratic system of the United States?
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