DI with a Hispanic main character?

[smachel]

One of my students is looking for a DI where the main character is a Hispanic/Latin American woman. She would prefer a monologue, as she is a speaker venturing into the world of interp. She is obsessed with Hernan Cortes and asked if I had anything about Dona Marina/La Malinche.

I am totally at a loss. I gave her some things to look at last week (none that fit her request) and told her I would do some research. Anybody have some suggestions of stuff to read?

[Ernest Chomicki]

One of my students is looking for a DI where the main character is a Hispanic/Latin American woman. She would prefer a monologue, as she is a speaker venturing into the world of interp. She is obsessed with Hernan Cortes and asked if I had anything about Dona Marina/La Malinche.

I am totally at a loss. I gave her some things to look at last week (none that fit her request) and told her I would do some research. Anybody have some suggestions of stuff to read?

Check out the author, Julia Alvarez. I am just starting to read some of her work. A good book that got turned into a movie was "In the Time of the Butterflies." According to Amazon, "In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression." I looked it up and it is told in first person, so it is full of DI fodder. Good Luck!

[superfluous]

Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt

[smachel]

Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt

this sounds really interesting! she's going to check it out at the library today.

[Interper05]

There is a wonderful novel by Sandra Cisneros called "The House on Mango Street." It was done in my region last year and the girl had wonderful success, though she did do it in Prose instead of DI. But I am sure it would make an excellent DI all the same.

One of my students is looking for a DI where the main character is a Hispanic/Latin American woman. She would prefer a monologue, as she is a speaker venturing into the world of interp. She is obsessed with Hernan Cortes and asked if I had anything about Dona Marina/La Malinche.

I am totally at a loss. I gave her some things to look at last week (none that fit her request) and told her I would do some research. Anybody have some suggestions of stuff to read?