ENGL 2351 Mexican American Literature
A survey of Mexican American/Chicanx literature from Mesoamerica to the present. Students will study literary works of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and memoirs in relation to their historical, linguistic, political, regional, gendered, and cultural contexts. Text will be selected from a diverse group of authors, literary movements, and media forms. Topics and themes may include the literary performance of idenitity and culture, aesthetic mediation of racialization, struggle and protest, and artistic activism