analyze Bodega Dreams as a novel shedding light and offering insights on different aspects of globalization. This may take different directions. You may include how different people’s lives, families and communities were represented in this novel as parts of a connected global system; or, how local/global problems and opportunities were shown in plots, characterizations, and narrative structures; or even how globalization’s strategies, ideological structures and systems of power were manifested in el barrio. Ultimately
