Gender Studies 204LT - Intro to Latina/o Literatures
Spring
2016
01
4.00
Jesus Hernandez
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM
Mount Holyoke College
95525
Ciruti 109
jjhernan@mtholyoke.edu
95523,95525,95524
We will explore a number of readings across different genres (the novel, play, poem, short story, graphic novel). Students will endeavor to understand how each author defines Latinidad. What characterizes Latina/os for each of these writers and how do their works articulate the historical conditions out of which they emerge? How is Latina/o literature marked by notions of language, nationality, gender, sexuality, class, race, politics, form, and genre? The readings will provide both a survey of general ideas in the study of Latina/o literatures as well as specific case studies and historical examples. The reading list is not meant to be comprehensive but to provide a sampling of texts.