essay
· 4-5 pages, double space
· Read: Both Chapters from "Tropicalizations"
· Read Text: Motorcycle Diaries
· Watch Film: Motorcycle Diaries
Essay Questions:
1. How does Ernesto's experience in the text and film provide us with a (de)tropicalizing narrative?
2. How do the text and film provide a critically conscious way to travel, visit, and engage in cultural exchanges while journeying through foreign lands and communities?
3. After spending this semester analyzing, dialoguing, reflecting and engaging in knowledge, how do Che’s words, “let the world change you and you can change the world,” give you insight into a humanizing way of understanding and being in the world?
4. What “traveling” and “journeying” do you need to take in order to deepen your humanity? Include your external and internal traveling.