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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Latin American Studies ETDs Electronic eses and Dissertations 5-1-2011 "God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza Anna Lapera Follow this and additional works at: hps://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds Part of the Latin American Languages and Societies Commons is esis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic eses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Latin American Studies ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Lapera, Anna. ""God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza." (2011). hps://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/6

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University of New MexicoUNM Digital Repository

Latin American Studies ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations

5-1-2011

"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me":Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la BuenaEsperanzaAnna Lapera

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds

Part of the Latin American Languages and Societies Commons

This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted forinclusion in Latin American Studies ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please [email protected].

Recommended CitationLapera, Anna. ""God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza." (2011).https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/6

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“Mi Poder es Hace Volar Casas”:

Collective Map from Home to Hogar

Warm-Up Calentamiento

-3 sets of acrylic paint -3 trastes de pintura acrílica

-Brushes of all sizes and textures -Pinceles de varios tamaños y

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-Two large poster board papers -2 pedazos grades de papel

Sketch your hometown on a separate sheet of paper, without using any

maps as aides.

Later, put everything together in a collective map

Dibuje tu pueblo natal en un papel separado, sin usar mapas como guías.

Luego, juntar todo en una mapa colectiva

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Chapter 3 / Capítulo 3

“Tu Silencio esta como si el Árbol no se

Moviera”:

An Ode to the Hometown I left Behind

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Warm-up Calentamiento

-1 metaphor -1 metáfora

-2 similes -2 símil

-2 words in another language -2 palabras en otra idioma que

hablas

you speak, -Nombrar un lugar físico en

tu pueblo

-to name one physical place in that town.

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“Como Lluegé al Convento”: Sensory Travel Poems About the Journey from

Home to Convent

Calentamiento, 4 de Julio Day 14 of classes. Day 2 of region-wide teacher’s strike * Cuando digo sabor, en que piensas? Sangre, humo,

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Cuando digo sonido, en que piensas?

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Cuando digo tocar y olor, en que piensas?

, tocar el suelo sucio, humo,

tocar un libro, tocar mi cuello…

* Piensa en esto, y luego, escribir tu favorito, y tu menos favorito para cada categoría. * Ahora, por favor piensa sobre tu primer viaje a Yurimaguas. Piensa en las sensaciones, piensa en los detalles, y en las emociones de ese viaje. Se acuerdan? Luego, escribe un poema sobre tu primer viaje a Yurimaguas. ¿A qué sonaba? A que sentía? A que olía? Que sabor tenía tu viaje? …. Escribelo en cualquier forma que deseas.

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“Hoy Nació Una Niña Hermosa y Rebelde”:

Narratives of Transformation

Warm-Up Calentamiento -Write a simile -Escribe un símil sobre Yurimaguas

about Yurimaguas

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Narratives of Transformation

“Why do certain events become central memories,

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-Pat Mora, “House of Houses”

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Espejos

Warm-up Calentamiento

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Chapter 12 / Capítulo 12

O Barriga Querida:

Odes to Loved and Hated Body Parts

Warm-up Calentamiento

1. En una hoja de papel, escribe la primera parte de un símil original al

tope de la hoja, y luego termine el símil en el último espacio de la

hoja.

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2. Corta la hoja en medio, separando las dos partes del símil, y

escribe #1 atrás de la primera parte, y #2 atrás de la segunda parte

3. Boca abajo, mezcla todas las de #1 y todas las de #2, y escoge uno

de cada uno y lea lo que te sale

Tus labios son / como el repollo (Your lips are like cabbage)

Tus senos son / como pestañas de chanchos (your nipples are like pig’s

eyelashes)

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Tu cabeza es / como el rio amazona (your head is like the Amazon river)

Tus pestañas / son como los chanchos (your eye lashes are like pigs)

Cuando mi pelo esta sucio / es como la estrella (when my hair is dirty, it is

like a star)

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Soy la Lluviosa, Soy la Calurosa:

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Chapter 14 / Capítulo 14

Así podría ser la

exacta mujer en que soy

y la que quisiera ser: Poems about what it takes

to be a woman

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