ENGL 1010: English Composition: Faculty Version: Personal Narrative

Reflection on food and identity, childhood. Useful to use with Henriquez,” Lunch” and Lahiri, “Rice.”
For original See September 3, 2007 Issue https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/real-food

(WoR): Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). Reflections on the author’s childhood and cultural background, mixed genres and languages, multiple arguments.

(AS): Reflections on identity, sexuality, place, and history. Good model on specificity and narration.

From Narrative of the Life of a Slave: Commentary on literacy, race, and slavery from the most well-known of slave narratives.

RA: Useful for discussion of argument in personal narrative. Commentary on stereotype, urban space, and the complexity through the lens of a hijab-wearing woman.

Meditation on connections among family, food, and change. Useful to use with Adichie, “Real Food” and Lahiri, “Rice”. For original see Sept. 3, 2007, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/lunch-6:

(50E): Classic reflection on racial identity and race relations.

(MfW): Reflections on education and identity.

(50E): Long meditation on living with disability.

(WoR): Long essay about education, ethnicity, and family. Original: Personal Reflections on Learning "Basics"." College English 40, no. 3 (1978)- 239-54.

(RA): Short and funny essay reflecting family, class and ethnicity, and television.

Short, funny essay about immigration, family, and place. Original at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/map-quest:

(50E): Short essay about family, language, and perception.

Lyric essay about family, literacy, and trauma. Original at: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/a-letter-to-my-mother-that-she-will-never-read

Excerpt from The Colossus of New York: Chapter about New York, belonging, and urban change, written from an unusual point of view.