Topics for discussion include the representation of sexualties, eroticism, and gender politics within the contest of the social and political realities of Spanish America. Four credit hours. An examination of a selection of novels, short stories, poetry, theater, and non-fiction by United States Latina and Chicana women writers. Interdisciplinary in approach, the course will focus on the relationship between the texts read and several important contemporary issues. Topics include feminism, the social and cultural construction of race and ethnicity, immigration, cultural nationalism, and identity formation.
Readings are in English.
Four credit hours. Topics for discussion include texts and contexts, narrative perspective, the role of the reader, and the carnivalesque. Four credit hours. Selections from the Middle Ages through modern times reflect both traditional and nontraditional portrayals of women in what has been a particularly male-oriented culture. Four credit hours.