For this close-reading assignment, you will be writing a brief close-reading about a piece of literature that we’ve read for this class thus far.
Select 1-2 pieces of literature from Weeks 3-4 (see list below) and develop a 2.5-3 page analysis that advances an original argument about the text(s). Your close-reading should draw on historical or political contexts to shape your analysis. In other words: consider how the political or historical contexts in which these texts were created or generated shape your analysis and interpretation of the texts themselves.
Your paper should be 2.5-3 pages
Your paper should use Chicago format
Select literature from the options listed above. You may also reference or include additional texts that we’ve read to support and/or provide context for your argument.
Your paper should focus on analysis (not summary)
Build an argument about the text(s) and engage in analysis of the texts to prove your argument
Pieces of literature:
Habal, “Ch. 7: The Fall of the I-Hotel”
Yamashita, excerpts from I-Hotel (pp. 577-605)
Al Robles’s poetry from Rappin’ With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark
Citing in Chicago Format (examples)
When quoting poetry, indicate line breaks with a forward slash (/). For example:
The narrator in Robles’s (2019) poem “The Wandering Manong” states that “the manong’s voice / changes from day to day / winter snowfall / sun & moon & stars / a wild spirit gone crazy …” (34).
THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF HOW TO DO THE CITATION BELOW DONT USE LINKS/TEXTS!
>Examples of in-text citations for Chicago Author/Date:
“It is that imagination … that I shall call ‘poetry,’ or ‘poetic knowledge’” (Kelley 2002, 9-10).
Robin D.G. Kelley (2002) states that “It is that imagination … that I shall call ‘poetry,’ or ‘poetic knowledge’” (9-10).
Examples of citations for Chicago Notes/Bibliography:
1. Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 9-10.
2. Al Robles, “The Wandering Manong,” in Rappin’ with Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Press, 1996/2019), 34-36.