HC 202 U.S. -Latino Literature
Instructor: Cecilia Saenz-Roby
Course Time: TR 1:00-2:47
General Education: Literature, U.S. Diversity & Writing Intensive
Term: Winter 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to acquaint students with representative literary works of U.S. Latinos and Latinas in English, Spanish, and in hybrid forms of Spanglish. Emphasis will be on resemblances and dissimilarities in the experiences of different Hispanic-American groups in the United States. Subject matters to be analyzed include the construction of Latino/a identity in terms of race, gender, education, and social class; the immigrant and the colonial subject; bilingualism and code-switching; and immigrants and colonial subjects.
List of proposed texts:
- Rivera, Tomás. And the Earth Did Not Devour Him. Houston: Ed. Arte Publico Press,1992.
- Santiago, Esmeralda. Cuando era puertorriqueña/When I Was a Puerto Rican.
- Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2006.
- Prida, Dolores. Beautiful Señoritas & Other Plays. Houston: Ed. Arte Publico Press,
- 1991.
- Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary edition. New York: Random House, 2009.