Introduction to Latina/o/x Literature and Art
ENGL 279
Fall 2021 not offered
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Caribbean Studies Minor |
We will study Latina/o/x aesthetics and poetics to ask questions about the history, sociality, and semiotics of Latinidad, as well as the formation of Latina/o/x studies in the U.S. university. The course understands Latinidad as an assimilable disturbance, around which specific ethical questions may emerge. We will study modes of "ethnic," aesthetic, poetic, theoretical, and geographic disturbance--assimilated and unruly--specific to the semiotics of Latinidad and Latinx studies, as well as their relationship to Blackness, anti-Blackness, whiteness, form, language, ontology, race, gender, and assumptions of futurity. Readings, viewings, and listenings focus on the 20th century, but that temporal provision will surely be shot through by reference points from 1500 to 2020. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
Major Readings:
Literature that may be featured in the course: The Masses are Asses (Pedro Pietri 1974); Nuyorican Poetry; ...y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Tomás Rivera; *trans. Evangelina Vigil-Piñon*, 1971); Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Richard Rodriguez, 1992); Drown (Junot Díaz, 1997).
Visual, film and performance artists who may be featured in the course: Enrique Chagoya, Julio Cesar Morales, Ester Hernández, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Miguel Luciano, Félix González Torres, Asco, Carmelita Tropicana, Coco Fusco, Nao Bustamante, Guillermo Gómez Peña, León Ichaso, John Leguizamo.
Criticism and theory by Mae Ngai, José E. Muñoz, David Román, Fred Moten, Antonio Viego, Suzanne Oboler, Gloria Anzaldúa, Miguel Algarín, Judith Butler, Lisa Marie Cacho, Sianne Ngai, Juan Flores, Gayatri Spivak, Jacques Derrida, Lauren Berlant, Ondine Chavoya, and Alexander Weheliye may be paired with select readings and viewings.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Attendance, 2 short papers (3-4 pages), peer-editing/intervention exercise, and a final research paper (8-10 pages) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literatures of Difference requirement and contributes to the Race and Ethnicity concentration in the English major. It also helps satisfy the Comparative Americas requirement for American Studies majors. |
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