LIT 357 Violence of Language: U.S. Latinx Street Literature
3 hours
This course will explore the ways in which "street life" creates avenues for self social and historical knowledge through literary expression. The narrative challenge for U.S. Latinx writers is to take a language of the everyday and reshape it into a literary form. Several questions will impel and inform our readings: How does street language translate into poetics? What constitutes knowledge in and of the street? Where does street literature fit within canonical American aesthetics?