Readings will focus on political and gendered contexts in particular. 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. L. 334s Women in Hispanic Texts Works by both male and female Hispanic authors are included in a study of the portrayal of women in Hispanic poetry and fiction. 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.