Introduction to prominent writers from a range of Latino literary traditions. Representative literary works from Mexican-American, Dominican-American, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican and other Latino writers are read and analyzed. The course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

This course examines significant works of literature written in English by Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. It concentrates on novels, short stories, and essays from the late 19th century to the present. Special attention is given to issues of cultural identity, social class, race, and gender, as well as bilingualism and code-switching. While focusing on the diversity of the Latino, a literary expression, this course also explores the sociopolitical contexts in which the works emerged and the commonalities and differences of the experiences of the Latin American diasporas in the U.S. (Students will receive credit for CMP 3059, ENG 3059, or LTS 3059. These courses may substitute for each other with the F-replacement option.

In this course, works reflecting the experiences of U.S. Latino/a writers in English are analyzed. Students will read, discuss, and write about fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama by writers such as Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldua, Roberto Fernandez, Tato Laviera, Achy Obejas, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., and Piri Thomas. Note: Crosslisted with LAT 338

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

Flexcore Us Exp&Div

English Lit 200-Level Elective

CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

This course will introduce students to Latin American literature in translation, covering fiction, poetry, and the novel from the perspective of multiculturalism and pluralism. Using literary and cultural analysis, students will examine texts for social, racial, and gender issues and explore problems in translation through discussion and papers. Students will also complete one research project using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of this course, students will not only have sharpened their textual analysis skills, but will also have gained a better understanding of Latin American literature and culture, and the problems of translation.

Each course is an examination of one or more of the following groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans, and Caribbean Americans.

This course examines early Latinx authors from the 19th and 20th centuries whose literature chronicles and confronts the injustice experienced by Latinx communities throughout U.S. history. We will examine the beginnings of the Latinx literary tradition as well as literary movements and authors who have had a major influence in American literature. This course provides a comparative portrait of the roots and routes of Latinx literature from a justice-oriented perspective.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicano, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other groups of Latinos/Latinas in the U.S. since the mid-twentieth century. It surveys the variety of Latino/Latina writing, exploring how these writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation, and ethnicity. Fiction, poetry, essays, autobiographical prose, and dramatic works by authors such as Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Nicholasa Mohr, and others will be studied.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in it's Diversity

200-LEVEL ELECTIVE

This course examines Latin American literature, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing its study on major literary works that have shaped the cultural and literary horizons of generations of readers, and that are representative of the most important literary trends in Latin American literature. A special effort will be made to put the texts studied in their historical, social and cultural contexts, in order to give students the opportunity to interpret the texts from a Latin American perspective. An important objective of the course is to give students the necessary theoretical tools to analyze the texts to be studied from a literary point of view. Priority will be given, to facilitate such, to the generic context of the texts, although, within a particular genre, attention will be paid to historical development.

Literature of Spanish America from 15th to 20th centuries. Special attention is given to 19th and 20th century authors.SATISFIES FLEXIBLE CORE- WORLD CULTURES & GLOBAL ISSUES

Liberal Arts Elective

English Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

English Liberal Arts Elective