2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin

LIT 265 Foundations of U.S. Latinx Literature

3 hours 

For over a hundred years U.S. Latinx writers have produced a wide array of fiction. This course tracks that literature from its foundations to contemporary works. Starting with a 19th-century author such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and culminating with contemporary writers like Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, this course examines the different literary themes, styles, and social concerns Latinx writers explore in their fiction. Thus, this course presents a comparative portrait of the various roots, beginnings, and trajectories of U.S. Latinx literature. Overarching issues include gender, race, class, diaspora, bilingualism, violence and community.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201

Notes

This course satisfies the Flexible Core: U.S. Experience in its Diversity area of the Gen Ed Program.