Course Description: In this course students will be reading works from the Latinx literary canon as a survey of Latinidad written by and framed by Latina women writers. Through the course theme, students will study and examine how Latina women write resistance, Latinidad, gender, race, sexuality, language and home as they navigate their lives ‘here’ and ‘there’ via notions of diaspora, migration, and belonging. This course analyzes contemporary literary works in the Latinx literary canon, including the course books, Of Women and Salt, Sabrina and Corina, and Family Lore, while weaving complimentary works in various genres. Students will form written arguments juxtaposing and analyzing the texts in the course considering how authors and poets write about home, racialized experiences as Afro-Latinas and Indigenous Latinas, girlhood and womanhood and resistance. In doing so, students will seek to answer, “why do gender and race matter,” “what is home,” “who belongs,” and “what forms of power affect my humanity?” while also synthesizing canonical and non-canonical novels, short stories, and poems. The course is framed with feminist theory produced by Latina women that demonstrates how theoretical frameworks are informed by lived experience and also become practice.
- Учитель: Keishla Rivera-López