TOPICS IN CHICANX/E AND LATINX/E LITERATURES

CHICLA/SPANISH 222

Offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Mexican and Latin American origin people in the United States. Emphasis on diversity, emergence of new imagined communities, and cultural hybridity. Focusing on key issues such as U.S. imperial expansion, colonialism, nation and community formations, migration, urban spaces, and the dynamics of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, study a range of socio-political, historical, literary, and artistic expressions that inform the whole process of culture and reveal the way Latinos and Latinas negotiate their presence, cultural difference, and creativity in the U.S.

CHICLA/SPANISH 467

Study the literature of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, particularly of writers of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican and Central American descent. Examines the impact of race and how individuals and communities negotiate situations of internal colonialism, migration, generational conflicts, tensions between assimilation and cultural preservation, gender roles, literary traditions, and transnational situations. Considers the linguistic, cultural and formal singularity of Latinx literature, the use of Spanish and English languages, the advent of feminist and queer writing, and the vision of the United States in their works regarding its past, its present and its future. Explores the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and literary forms. Diverse theories and ways to read literary texts will be explored. Literary texts - novels, short stories, poetry and essays - will be read in English or Spanish, or a combination of both. Taught in Spanish

CHICLA/ENGL 460

Chicanxs and Latinxs are frequently imagined in ways that erase the history, presence, and influence of African-descended peoples within these groups. However, this anti-Blackness does not go unanswered in Chicanx and Latinx cultural production. Covers literature, life-writing/autoethnography, visual culture, philosophy/theory, and history that takes up Black Latinx experience and/or that comparatively explores the African American and Latinx convergences, exploring a rich vein of thought and representation in U.S. literatures that is often more transamerican than American and that offers new definitions of both Latinx and Black. Readings on racial paradigms in the Americas, paying attention to the differences between US and Latin American contexts, as well readings on decoloniality, intersectional feminisms, borderlands, and diaspora.

CHICLA 530

Topics vary each semester, but may include history, literature, media, political science, culture, social work, etc., as they relate to Chicana/os and Latina/os in the United States.

CHICLA/ENGL 368

Historical, political, and aesthetic roots and directions of Latin@ and Chican@ short stories, novels, poetry, music, plays, films, and essays.