Course details
Name: ENGL - 279
Title: LATINX WRITERS IN THE UNITED STATES
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2023
Credits: 3
Description:
A study of Latinx, Hispanic, and other Spanish-speaking or Latin American-descended writers in the United States. The course is taught entirely in English. The class will illustrate the history and diversity of the Latinx contribution to U.S. literature, challenging the exclusion of these writers and texts from the American canon, as well as exploring the shifting titles, identities and communities that are grouped under “Latinx.” Students will read works from Latinx writers that deal with significant political questions and will analyze how writers engage with these issues in a variety of literary forms. In addition, students will see the aesthetic experimentation by Latinx writers connected to modernist and postmodernist movements as well as their complex inheritance of “magical realism” from important Latin American writers. The reading list may include William Carlos Williams, Rodolfo Acuña, José Martí, Américo Paredes, Julia Alvarez, Cristina García, Sandra Cisneros, Piri Thomas, Gloria Anzaldúa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Junot Diaz, Ernesto Quiñonez, Gabby Rivera, and others.
Last updated on 2023-03-17 By
Gonzalez Jeffrey (gonzalezje)
Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Other American (TE 1d)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Ethnic Studies (3b)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Gonzalez Jeffrey (gonzalezje)
Is course canceled: No