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The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez
  What's Your Circuit? El Corrido Migrante from the Fields to the Cities
   
  Presented by: Gina Gamboa
 

Workshop Description

 

The Circuit is an award-winning collection of independent but intertwined autobiographical stories in which Panchito's family travels a circuit of unending migration from one farm to another as they search for the next harvesting job. Although impermanence and poverty largely define their lives, their faith, hope and back-breaking work enable the family to endure. This workshop will use the corrido song form to help explore the dimensions of Panchito's young life.

 

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This unit was originally presented at the 10-2007 YAL Conference.

 


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