Latino/a Literature
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of the GPD in English.
Latino/a literature has become an important focus in American literary studies because of its unique relation to questions of language, cultural hybridity, and borders. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latino/a fiction, poetry, and drama, including analysis of Latino/a genres like corridos, testimonios, and teatro campesino. Topics include identity politics, transnationalism, cultural traditions and literary forms, textual recovery, gender and sexuality, and (im)migration.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of the diversity of forms, politics, themes, and identities in Latino/a Literature and the scholarly criticism about it; Students will learn how to teach and write about this literature through oral and written assignments.
Latino/a literature has become an important focus in American literary studies because of its unique relation to questions of language, cultural hybridity, and borders. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latino/a fiction, poetry, and drama, including analysis of Latino/a genres like corridos, testimonios, and teatro campesino. Topics include identity politics, transnationalism, cultural traditions and literary forms, textual recovery, gender and sexuality, and (im)migration.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of the diversity of forms, politics, themes, and identities in Latino/a Literature and the scholarly criticism about it; Students will learn how to teach and write about this literature through oral and written assignments.