This course surveys fiction, poetry, drama, essays, autobiography, and film by Latinx people in the United States with attention to the distinctions and similarities that have shaped the experiences and the cultural imagination among different communities, including Mexican Americans or Chicanos/as, Puerto Ricans or Nuyoricans, Cuban Americans, Dominicans, and other groups. Themes might include colonization and decolonization, exile and diaspora, bilingual aesthetics and orality, border narratives, immigration and citizenship, social justice, mestiza and Afro-Latinidad identity, and Latina feminisms and queer identities. Major writers might include Elizabeth Acevedo, Julia Alvarez, Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Martin Espada, Maria Irene Fornes, Aracelia Girmay, Juan Felipe Herrera, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Jose Marti, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alberto Rios, and Jose Rivera.
| Distribution Area | Prerequisites | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities- or -Privilege, Power And Diversity | 1 course |