Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE ***** This course will juxtapose literature written by Mexican Americans from 1848-1950 with literature written by Mexican nationals during the same period of enormous changes. The goal here is twofold: one, to asses the common ground between these two bodies of literature, and two, to ask what role does translation play in our ability to interpret these texts. The first goal will invariably led the class to consider the historical, cultural, and linguistic similarities between the two bodies of literature. The second goal will allow the class to measure both the effect of translating Mexican American culture into literature for an English-reading. U.S. audience, and translating Mexican literature into English for a Latin Americanist readership. The literature studied in this course will be grouped under categories such as colonialism, war, immigration, the border, scoicalism vs capitalism, etc.