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Welcome
Today: Like Water for Chocolate
• Common elements of Latin American literature
• Images of women• Mexican artist Frida
Kahlo
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Common elements of Latin American literature
• Realism• Historical fiction• Lives of ordinary people• Family sagas (Gertrudis p. 59)• Concern with social/political reform • Folklore (La llarona p. 68)• Latin cultural traditions• Magical realism
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Motif
• A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature. Ex: Using food to convey emotion
• A motif may also be two contrasting elements in a work, such as good and evil, heat & fire, etc.
• A motif is important because it allows the reader to see themes that the author is trying to express, so that they may interpret the work more accurately.
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Common literary characteristics for Latin American literature
• Use of foreshadowing (p. 58)
• Use of symbolism (quail p. 49)
• Metaphor/simile (last chili… p. 57-8)
• Locate these examples and see if you can find one more of each! Add them in your notes!
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Symbols in Literature and Art
• How are symbols used in Like Water for Chocolate?
• What are some of the symbols we’ve seen in the novel?
• What do they generally represent?
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Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda
Kahlo y Calderon on July 6, 1907, in her parents' house
in Coyoacan, Mexico a suburb of
Mexico City.
Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress
1926
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1907-1954
• Active in social, economical, and political changes in Mexico
• Mexican Pride
• Both Mexican and European bloodlines added scrutiny to her national identity: compelled her work forward.
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Suffering and Art• “Her finest recipes date from this
period of suffering. Just as a poet plays with words…” (Esquivel 69).
• "I've done my paintings well, not quickly but patiently, and they have a message of pain in them.” – Frida Kahlo
• "I am not sick…I am broken... but I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.... ”- F.K.
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• As you look at Frida Kahlo’s paintings, notice how she chooses to represent women. – (remember she lived and created art during and after
the Mexican Revolution).
• You will be choosing one of Frida Kahlo’s pictures to focus on for a comparison we will be doing in class today, so think about which one you might choose. – How does Kahlo represent women in this particular
picture? – What colors, or symbols, or gestures, or facial
expressions does she use to emphasize this woman? Jot down some notes.
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Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932
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My Dress Hangs There, 1933
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My Grandparents, My Parents and I (Family Tree), 1936
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Portraits of Women by Frida Kahlo
Portrait of My Sister Cristina
1928
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Portrait of Eva Frederick
1931
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Roots (Raices)
1943
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Portrait of Dona Rosita
Morillo
1944
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The Two Fridas
1939
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Self-Portrait with Necklace
1933
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Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky)
1937
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• How is Kahlo using symbols in her art?
• What do the symbols generally represent?
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Self-Portrait
1940
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Self-Portrait with Necklace
1933
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Self-Portrait
1940
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Self-Portrait with Loose Hair
1947
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The Love Embrace of the Universe, the
Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor
Xolotl1949
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• Choose one of Frida Kahlo’s pictures to focus on. – How does Kahlo represent women in this particular picture? – What colors, or symbols, or gestures, or facial expressions…
does she use to emphasize/illustrate this woman? Jot down some notes.
• Compare and contrast your chosen Kahlo picture with one of characters represented in Like Water for Chocolate. – How does Kahlo show her women/woman differently than
Esquivel does? – How are the two women the same/different? – How can you account for these similarities/differences?
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Homework
• Read “May” and “June” and “July” in Like Water for Chocolate- expect a quiz