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Alambrista

Alambrista. Themes, Homo Faber and The Human Experience. Alambrista and Explored Themes. Long-distance walking, exile, labor Loneliness, temporary friendships Illegality, pesticides, labor struggles Sexuality, scabs and coyotes Death in strange lands, cyclical death.

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Alambrista

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  1. Alambrista Themes, Homo Faber and The Human Experience

  2. Alambristaand Explored Themes Long-distance walking, exile, labor Loneliness, temporary friendships Illegality, pesticides, labor struggles Sexuality, scabs and coyotes Death in strange lands, cyclical death

  3. Roberto as Homo Faber • Humans as makers of things, places and meanings. • Humans have made fire, tools, weapons, toys, hunted, planted and harvested, meals and wealth, music, art, language, laws, families, dynasties, etc. • Roberto as maker of family, food, cultivator of food, journey, wealth, love and sexuality.

  4. Food and food preparation • Food as metaphor for sustenance, mental and spiritual. • Requires labor for planting, harvesting, and preparation. • Roberto and farm workers live a hyper-food existence. • The ironic condition of food harvesting and constant poverty and food deprivation.

  5. Separation and disorientation • Roberto leaves family, symbolic crossing of the wire, loss and danger to occur. • The beginning of his disorientation and possible religious martyrdom

  6. Walking as essential and survival • Migrant farm workers travel long distances over unfamiliar terrain. • Come from diverse areas, but unified in purpose and need. • Travel into spaces of unfamiliarity • Travel into dark spaces of danger, uncertainty, risk and exploitation

  7. Bent Over • The physical condition of the farm worker • They labor in lush, green and healthy settings. • Ironic spaces, places of abundance, places that perpetuate poverty.

  8. Leccion numero uno • Joe the survivor, the facilitator, the seasoned one—the comedic one, the trickster (the tragic one) • Teaches Roberto how to behave, smile, hold his head high, walk with confidence and flirt with the waitress in a restaurant. • Tells Roberto to cross his legs, “Because Gringos always cross their legs.” • Shows Roberto how to order, “Ham, eggs and coffee.”

  9. Trickster to Lowrider • Joe as trickster, possible tragic mythic figure • Joe as rebellion, non-conforming, challenging authority and its traditions. • Commonly meet tragic ends—Joe and Roberto on the train ride.

  10. Rent-a-slave to a Taste of Flower • Confrontation with other workers—near riot and chaos • Encountering Sharon-the flower-sexual encounters • The “holy rollers”.

  11. Dissembling Alambrista • Scene in café with policeman and loud-mouth • Reveals Roberto’s dilemma, predicament • Reveals his vulnerability, his deciphering and negotiating. • Sharon adds to his predicament unknowingly

  12. 13 unlucky steps • New job as pesticide flagman • New clothes, new outlook, optimism • New danger of pesticides • Captured and deported

  13. Peripatetic Mexicans • Peripatetic: to walk up and down, to tread • Roberto as the dark peripatetic • Roberto’s in his ominous excursion, often on foot—the peon. • Smuggled by another coyote, and a 36 hour ride.

  14. Like father, unlike son Finds his dead father Finds his life space, his new life Knows him through death Woman giving birth at the border

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