Mayda del valle tongue tactics vs strategy

  • Mayda del Valle's slam poem, “Tongue Tactics,” expands on the ways in which her predecessors creatively deployed Spanish and English as gestures.
  • Because it is “not fully contained” by the city, Noel argues, it can be used “as a strategy deployable outside of its geographic home” ().
  • Materials: Previous drafts of poetry by students, internet access, computer with projector and speakers, copies of "Tongue Tactics" by Mayda del Valle (found in.

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    Nuyorican Theater and Poetry - Modern Drama, Emergence of Poetry, Evolution of Nuyorican Theater and Poetry, Contemporary Scene

    Nuyorican Theater and Poetry


    Modern Drama, Emergence of Poetry, Evolution of Nuyorican Theater and Poetry,
    Contemporary Scene
    The history of Puerto Rican drama in the United States dates back to the first quarter of the twentieth century. Gonzalo
    O'Neill's play Pabellón de Borinquén o bajo una sola bandera (), which supported the Puerto Rican nationalist
    movement, was one of the first Puerto Rican plays written and produced in the United States. One of the most notable Puerto
    Rican playwrights of the early period and a former president of La Liga Puertorriqueña e Hispana, O'Neill also wrote La
    indiana borinqueña (), a patriotic dialogue in verse promoting Puerto Rican self-determination. In he wrote
    Moncho Reyes, in which he criticizes the Americanization policies of the island's colonial government under U.S. governor E.
    Mont

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    Identity, De-colonization and Cosmopolitanism in (Afro)Latina Artists’ Spoken Word Performances

    Abstract

    The aim of this chapter is to address how discourses of latinidad are produced and performed by means of aesthetic and cultural practices that Latinx artists engage in as tactics of self-definition and self-representation. Latina and Afro-Latina poets-performers such as Mayda del Valle, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ariana Brown or Amalia Ortiz, among others, deal with the intersections of the politics of identity and what sociologist Aníbal Quijano () theorized as “the coloniality of power.” Although Afro-Latina poets spoken word artists focus on the workings of xenophobia, racism, gendering and othering in their poems, they implicitly suggest the need for alternative processes of interaction and conviviality, of a decolonial mindset leading to a non-EuroAmerican-centered pluriversality. Furthermore, this chapter explores how in formulating oppositional interp

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    Activities

    (For approximately fyra to fem 90 minute, block schedule class periods)

    Lesson One

    Objectives: Students will collaboratively develop a map of language "pockets" (also called "nodes") in their neighborhood communities through brainstorming, discussion, and research (making the invisible city visible); furthermore, students will be able to develop a del av helhet of poetic/descriptive/expository writing around the question: "How does language play a role in your pocket of the neighborhood?" and "How is place important to language use?" using vocabulary introduced bygd the students' prior knowledge and extended by the teacher; finally, students will be able to reread, review, and revise a creative writing poem in a homework assignment for the next class meeting.

    Materials: maps of the surrounding neighborhoods, city, country, and world; internet access, computer, projector, speakers; 3x5 inch note cards; writing paper; writing tools; a list of vocabulary terms (see below).

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