LATINX LITERACIES

CHICLA 327

An examination of specific themes in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e literature that address persistent marginalization due to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.

CHICLA/SPANISH 467

Study the literature of Latinx/e populations 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/e 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, present, and 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 368

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

CHICLA 520

Study and reflect on Latinx unequal access to media and the political and social context of media in Latinx communities. Develop research, writing, editing and copyediting, collaboration, and project management skills while contributing to Latinx Studies research. Create content for such online outlets as Latinx Talk, La Bloga, Latinx Project, Wikipedia and UW-Madison publications.

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.