Discuss the concept of “home” as it has operated for Latinx and Latin American subjects in the texts we have read, and the varied ways one can observe a longing for or imagination of home.

Latin American studies

Discuss the concept of “home” as it has operated for Latinx and Latin American subjects in the texts we have read, and the varied ways one can observe a longing for or imagination of home, or conflict and fracture around the sense of home, in our course material.

Be sure to consider a range of issues, such as migration and questions of belonging, diaspora, community and/or political identities, and state terror, as well as others. You do not have to include all of the topics in the previous sentence, this is just a list of potential topics.

Your answer should utilize at least three major sources from the course, a minimum of two texts and maximum of one film permitted.

FIlms: Roma, Sin Nombre.

Readings: I am not your perfect Mexican daughter and those provided, the essay 2 also can be used as one source.

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Discuss the concept of “home” as it has operated for Latinx and Latin American subjects in the texts we have read, and the varied ways one can observe a longing for or imagination of home.
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