| Description |
This course will examine Latinx imaginaries and how they have created competing representations of identity and belonging in the United States. We will analyze how poetry, fiction, and memoirs negotiate language, race, gender, and sexuality. Through the lens of Third World Feminism, Post-colonial and Queer Theory, we will interrogate how said works, in the words of Langston Hughes, "sing America", and how they respond to and counter myriad historical and contemporary oppressions.
Required text: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Further texts/materials will be made available in class and/or on MOODLE. |
