RESOURCES FOR LIT 308
LATINX LITERATURE
"Through the lens of literature and other forms of cultural production (music, the visual arts, film, etc.),
this course examines issues of Latinx identity and the Latinx experience in the US, including:
bilingualism and code-switching; labelling race/ethnicity and the complexities of Latinx racial identity;
gender identity and the machismo/marianismo paradigm; identity and citizenship; queer Latinx identities;
cultural Catholicism and the role of religion; pan-hispanism and the rhetoric of latinidad. While the course
will explore the concept and the construction of Latinx identity, it will also emphasize the diversity of
experiences of the Latin American diasporas in the US."
Below you will find links to many of the course texts available on course reserve for you. Check here for more information about how to check out a course reserve.
On the sidebar you will see links to other resources in the library that can help you with your research including reference and background research materials, other books related to the course material, and suggestions for databases and search terms to start with.
Course Reserve Links
What are course reserves?
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PLEASE NOTE:
These are two books for placeholders in constructing the guide. When we get the course reserve info from the instructor I will update accordingly.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by ISBN: 9781565129757Publication Date: 2010-01-12From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory."
Borderlands / la Frontera by ISBN: 1879960850Publication Date: 2012-06-12Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Fourth Edition. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
