Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Preqequisites: S328 or equivalent

This course will deepen students’ knowledge of Latinx literary and cultural production. By closely analyzing the interactions between content, form, and context, we will develop grounded readings attuned to factors that have shaped and continue to shape particular Latinx experiences in the United States. Beginning by reflecting on the unstable category of “Latinx” itself, the course approaches literary and cultural production in its intersection with issues of revolution, immigration, identity, labor, the Vietnam War and Latinxs in the armed forces, civil rights, nationalism, urban life, the politics of language, and the U.S./Mexico border. In analyzing these issues, we will devote special attention to questions of race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality. Though some readings will be in English, class discussions, presentations, and all written work will be conducted in Spanish.

This course carries inquiry credit and CASE DUS Diversity in the U.S. credit.

Note: HISP-S 435  meets with HISP-S 498 (30560)

HISP-S 435   #30371   11:30A - 12:45P      MW    BH 344     Prof. Andrés Guzman

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