Teaching chapter three of Junot Diaz award wining novel
today The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao. The chapter is set in the Dominican Republic between 1955 and 1962. It looks at the teenage years of Oscar’s mother growing up in a provincial city as a marginalized dark skinned girl coming of age, boy crazy, and wanting to escape many aspects of her life.
The chapter begins with Beli kneading dough in the family bakery and ends with her working as waitress in Chinese owned tavern. She is a member of Caribbean country which
evolved out a great deal of ethnic mixing. In the Americas Iberians
purchased enslaved Africans as domestic servants, cooks, and bakers. As a labor
incentive masters gave obedient slaves opportunities to make money selling
baked goods in urban centers. Thus some enslaved Africans literally baked their
way to freedom.
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/FrederickDouglassOpie?ref=hl and Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie
Bakery Stories and Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=bakeries
Dominican Foodways: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Dominican+republic
Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/FrederickDouglassOpie?ref=hl and Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie
Food, Slavery and Manumission: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=manumission
Bakery Stories and Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=bakeries
Dominican Foodways: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Dominican+republic