Latinx Literature Now

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course surveys Latinx literary and other cultural and media work created in the past 5 years to gauge the state of Latinx life in the US during our epochally momentous "present," the one unfolding since 2019. While focusing on works of fiction. poetry, and drama, the course will also feature works from the visual and media arts, including film, television, and music. Writers may include Ada Limón, Carmen Maria Machado, Carmen Giménez Smith, Natalie Diaz, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Javier Zamora, and Hernán Díaz.