Problems in American Literature
Class Information
Instructor: Martín, Desirée
CRN: 53334
Time: T 3:10-6:00
Location: 120 Voorhies
Description
ENL 233-2, "c21 Latinidades":
What do Latinidades and Latina/o/x Studies look like in the 21st century? How are Latina/o/x identities performed, represented, and challenged? How does Latina/o/x Studies intersect with American Studies, Latin American Studies, and/or studies of the Global South? How do Latina/o/x identities engage with and help shape theories of race, ethnicity, gender/sexualities, immigration/migration, undocumentation, language and translation, affect and emotion, genre and media, or domesticity? How do contemporary Latinas/os/x "write the self" or "perform the self"? In this course, we will examine these questions and beyond through reading, viewing, listening to, and interacting with a range of recent texts and cultural objects. An initial reading list is below; critical texts will include works by Jose E. Mu?oz, Frances Aparicio, Cristina Beltran, Jillian Hernandez, and others.
Texts
"Mean", Gurba
"Corazon", Salgado
?The Undocumented Americans? , Villavicencio
?In the Dream House?, Machado
?Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces?, Montoya
?Children of the Land?, Castillo
?Peluda?, Lozada-Oliva
"Unaccompanied", Zamora