Questions about SISTA TONGUE

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Here are some questions to consider as you read Lisa Linn Kanae's _Sista Tongue_ this week. I hope you enjoy this reading.

--What do you make of the layout of the book? Take a couple of pages and carefully consider how the layout affects your reading of them. What are the relationships between space and meaning (oh architects to be!).

--Kanae writes in several modes, including memoir (the stories about her little brother), academic essay (the Pidgin history), and extended quotation. Why? What does each kind of writing do for her, as the writer, and for you, as the reader?

--What is Kanae's argument about the status of Pidgin speakers in Hawai`i? What does it have to do with the story about her brother being sent to a special school? Where do you find this argument in the book?

--(for fun): Why do you think the designer chose purple for the book cover?

aloha, sms