SDSU

MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL ARTS



MALA 600A
The Meaning of Work


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Discussion Questions for Week 9


1. What are the three characteristics of a minor literature?

2. What examples of people who live in a language that is not their own, specifically workers, can you list?

3. How does language compensate for its deterritorialization?

4. Describe Kafka's German.

5. Discuss Gregor's warbling in relation to deterritorialized language.

6. What do Deleuze and Guattari call on us to do in the conclusion of their essay "What is a Minor Literature?"

7. Discuss the Mexican and Chicano population in the United States and the capitalist world system.

8. What is a lifetime proletarian household?

9. Discuss Chicanos and Mexicans as a transnational labor force.

10. How has the labor force been sustained by racism?

11. What was the impact of the Bracero Program?

12. Describe the integration of Mexican women into the capitalist world system.

13. Discuss the Church, the role of women and machismo.


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