Latinx Literatures and Culture

SPN

322

Latinx Literatures and Culture

An interdisciplinary survey of Latinx literatures and cultures. Readings will concentrate on an array of Latinx groups, including Mexican American, Chicano/a, Cuban American, Puerto Rican American, Dominican American, and Central and South American, living and producing texts in the United States. The course undertakes an exploration of cultural forms such as poetry, drama, literary and graphic narratives, films, art, and digital media, as well as an understanding of the political and historical contexts from which these texts emerge. Challenging simplistic notions and stereotypes, the course will explore Latinx identity formation and negotiation with regards to language, race, gender, sexuality, class, colonialism, diaspora, and immigration, geographic and symbolic borderlands. This class will be taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: Open to students who have taken SPN 313

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

No

034117