Latinx American Literature

This course offers a study of Latinx/a/o American literature, from the 1960s during the peak immigration of Latinxs to the United States up to present day. The course aims to enhance students? knowledge of how the creative and literary components of each text contribute to and reflect the unique social and political experience of being Latinx in the United States. We may discuss how identity is performed in the everyday sense and how Latinx historical identities have been shaped in conflict, dissent and/or conjunction with the multiple Latinx immigrant groups within a U.S context. The course will include all forms of writing as well: poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. Topics may encompass political theater, experimental theater, revolution, censorship and self-censorship, trauma and memory, gender, borders and latinidad, and may focus on the diversity of the Latin American and Latinx ethnic experiences in the US (Chicana/o, Nuyorican, Dominican American, et al).

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