Sabrina & Corina: Stories

What is Fajardo-Anstine’s message about the experience of neocolonialism for present-day Indigenous or Latinx peoples? Focus on the details included in one story to support your point of view. 

What is Fajardo-Anstine’s position on gentrification? What is gentrification, and how does it impact the lives of the community members whose neighborhoods it effects? How is gentrification related to colonialism? Choose quotes from one story or several stories to support your perspective. 

What is the role of women in the maintenance and social production of patriarchy? Use specific details from one story or several stories to bolster your point of view. 

Choose one story within Sabrina & Corina and perform a detailed analysis of one of its female characters. Name the specifics of that character’s identity and cultural position, including her age, era, socioeconomic position, racial position within an overarching context of White supremacy, and cultural position within her community. What does Fajardo-Anstine’s depiction of this character communicate about the specific kind of womanhood that she embodies? 

What are the key forces that inform the creation and expression of Indigenous or Latinx womanhood within contemporary America? Draw from one story or several stories within the collection to support your perspective. 

What is neocolonialism, and how does it express itself in the daily, lived experiences of Indigenous or Latinx women? Use specific details from one or more stories to help you form your response. 

What is power? How does it arise from material, cultural, and social conditions, and are there forms of power that contravene these positions? If so, how are those contravening forms of power accessed or created? Use specific details from one or more stories to bolster your perspective. 

Analyze the presence of violence within Sabrina & Corina. What are the connections between interpersonal violence and institutional or systematic violence? Cite specific examples from characters’ relationships with each other and with their economic, cultural, and social environments to thoroughly answer this question.