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    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"
    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"
    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"
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    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"

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    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535827232
    A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"

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      A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien" - Gale

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      Legal Alien

      Pat Mora

      1980

      Introduction

      Legal Alien originally appeared in the 1980 publication Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature. Pat Mora's first collection of poetry Chants, which was published in 1984 and includes the poem as well, and was awarded the Southwest Book Award from Border Regional.

      Legal Alien explores the speaker's attempt to understand her identity while living between two separate cultures that equally reject her. Like most of Mora's work, Legal Alien combines English and Spanish to express powerful emotions. The poem reflects the poet's own experiences as a Mexican American, and the two languages serve as a dialogue between the two cultures. Besides its inclusion in Chants, the poem is available on many different Web sites such as Voices from the Gaps and southwestcrossroads.org.

      Author Biography

      Mora was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1942, and grew up speaking both Spanish and English at home. Mora's grandparents had fled to the United States during the Mexican Revolution in the early twentieth century, and both of her parents grew up in the United States. As a child, Mora traveled back and forth across the border to visit family. Mora's mother, grandmother, and aunts told her traditional tales from Mexico, which she later incorporated into her children's stories. Her mother always encouraged her to read, and Mora established a lifelong love of

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