Latin@ Literature

Texts by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent. Examines how these writers' shared history of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism has resulted in differing representations of home and homeland, nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs the production of gendered identities as well as sexualities. Analysis of the formal conventions of fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and film.