Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 696T - US Black Latino Literature And Contemporary Theory
| Effectivity: | 01/07/2008 - 05/03/2008 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Blk Latn Lit&Cont Thry |
| Description: | This course proposes to examine literature written by US citizens of African and Spanish Caribbean ancestry. This growing group of writers represents new voices, perspectives, and orientations that are challenging, the scope, definitions and imaginary conceptions of "American literature." Replete with neo-cartographies of the home-space, the works of writers such as Marta Vega, Alan Cambeira, Piri Thomas, Loida Maritza Perez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario challenge and contest institutionalized notions of space, place, location, home, nation, culture, citizenship and identity. Through the lenses of post-colonial studies, transnational studies, queer studies, and cultural studies, students will engage critically the spaces from which this emerging cadre of US writers speak and create literarily. Additionally, critical attention will be given to textual analysis, literary style and technique, as well as cultural globalism and the ontological and epistemological challenges to writing Black and Latino within the unrecognized constraints of a pluralistic US that continues to ghettoize cultural expressions that do not conform to the essentialized literary status quo. In addition to literary and critical texts, film will be used to augment the course content. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
