Latinx Literature Now

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In this course we will read novels and books of poetry published within the last five years. We'll engage with historical, contemporary, and speculative definitions of latinidad, taking up the ideas and provocations offered by the texts we'll read over the semester. In particular, we will focus on how latinidad works as both a conceptual category as well as an on-the-ground practice of living in community, an identity marker as well as a way of imagining the world. We will also think about how latinidad is inclusive as well as exclusive. We'll use the texts we read together to consider how race, ethnicity, migration, gender, sexuality, politics, and religion inform historical, present, and future meanings of latinidad. This semester, we'll read texts by Martín Espada, Jaime Cortez, Aracelis Girmay, Urayoán Noel, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Xavier Aquino Navarro, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Yesenia Montilla, Xochitl González, and Ada Limón.