English

In response to one of the following topics, and with support from our readings, compare the literacy story of the narrator (Agosin) andyour own literacy story.Topic I Marjorie Agosin discusses her experience with language:But here in the United States, where I have lived since I was a young girl, the solitude of exile makes me feel that so little is mine,that not even the sky has the same constellations, the trees and the fauna the same names or sounds, or the rubbish the same smell. Howdoes one recover the familiar? How does one name the unfamiliar? How can one be another or live in a foreign language? These are thedilemmas of one who writes in Spanish and lives in translation.Agosin, Marjorie. “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar through Language.” Poets & Writers March / April 1999.