course outline 2013

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Minority Voices in the New Canon (Latino/a Culture)

Lecture: 2 hrs/weekSeminar: 2 hrs/week

Course outline

1. Introduction (definitions of key concepts and basic information on the Latinos of the United

States); early history of Mexican Americans

2. Mexican Americans some historical facts and the portrait of a culture

Required reading: lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca - from The Account (1542/1555); Inca, Garcilaso

de la Vega from La Florida del Inca (1605); John L. OSullivan A Divine Destiny for

America (1839) and Annexation (1845)

2.1. The Chicano Movement and the appearance of a Chicano/a identity at the end of the 20th

century

Required reading: Rudolfo Corky Gonzles I am Joaqun (1967)

2.2. Toms Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya

Required reading: Toms Rivera from And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971);

Rudolfo Anayafrom Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

2.3. Gloria Anzalda, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros: The voice ofla Chicana

Required reading: Gloria Anzalda from Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza (1987);

Sandra Cisneros from The House on Mango Street (1983); My Wicked, Wicked Ways

(1987); Woman Hollering Creek (1991); Ana Castillo from So far from God (1993)

3. Puerto Rican Americans some historical facts and the portrait of a culture

Required reading: Piri Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1967)

Tato Laveira My Graduation Speech (1979)

4. Cuban Americans some historical facts and the portrait of a culture

Required reading: Jos Mart A Vindication of Cuba (1889);

Cristina Garca from Dreaming in Cuban (1992)

5. Dominican Americans some historical facts and the portrait of a culture

Required reading: Julia Alvarez from How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

Additional reading material: chapters from Hilmice Novas, Everything You Need to Know aboutLatino History (2007).


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Grading: 1). class participation 25%; 2) in-class presentation (expert of the day for each of the

literary texts) 25%; 3) final evaluation 50% (essay).The essay will reflect your interpretation of the

cultural aspects addressed in a text of your choice and your reading of bibliographical material. It

should not exceed 7 pages (typed, Times New Roman, character 12, 1.5 line spacing) and it should

observe one of the common styles of academic writing (MLA or Chicago style).

Primary texts:

Alvarez, Julia, How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents. London: Bloomsburry Publishing Plc.

1991.

Anaya, Rudolfo, Bless Me, Ultima.New York/Boston: Grand Central Publishing. 1999.

Anzalda, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute

Books. 2007.

Castillo, Ana, So far from God. New York: Plume. 1994.

Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books. 1991.

---Woman Hollering CreekAnd Other Stories. New York: Vintage Books. 1992.

---My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Eduardo del Rio, ed. The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino

Literature. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 2002.

Garca, Cristina, Dreaming in Cuban. New York: Ballantine Books. 1995.

Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega from La Florida del Inca (1605). Augenbraum, Harold, Margarite

Fernandez Olmos, eds., The Latino Reader. From 1542 to the Present. Boston, New York:

Houghton Mifflin Company.1997.

Kanellos, Nicols, ed. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States. Houston: Arte

Pblico, 1993.

Nez Cabeza de Vaca, lvar - from The Account (1542/1555). Augenbraum, Harold, Margarite

Fernandez Olmos, eds., The Latino Reader. From 1542 to the Present. Boston, New York:Houghton Mifflin Company.1997.

OSullivan, John L., A Divine Destiny for America, 1845.

--- (July-August 1845). "Annexation". United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17 (1): 510.

Thomas, Piri, Down These Mean Streets. New York: Vintage Books. 1991.

Rivera, Toms, y no se lo trag la tierra/ And the Earth Did Not Devour Him . Evangelina

Vigil-Pion (trans.). Houston: Arte Publico Press. 1992.
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Selective bibliography (secondary texts)*

Bhabha, Homi K. TheLocation of Culture. London and New York: Routledge. 1994.

Bixler-Mrque et. al. Chicana/o Studies. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

2007 (1997).

Flores, Juan and Renato Rosaldo (eds.). A Companion to Latino/a Studies. Malden MA/ Oxford:

Blackwell, 2007.

Keating, AnaLouise. Entre Mundos/Among Worlds. New Perspectives on Gloria Anzalda. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005.

Kevane, Bridget and Juanita Heredia. Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary

Women Writers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2000.

Kevane, Bridget. Latino Literature in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2003.

Norton, Mary Beth et al., ed. A People and a Nation.Brief 4th Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1996.

Novas, Hilmice. Everything You Need to Know about Latino History. New York: Penguin Group.

2007

Padilla, Genaro M. My History, Not Yours. The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography.

Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. 1993.

Romero, Mary et. al., ed. Challenging Fronteras. Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.

An Anthology of Readings. New York/London: Routledge. 1997.

Steinberg, Stephen, ed. Race and Ethnicity in the United States. Issues and Debates. Malden

Massachusetts: Blackwell. 2000.

Torres, Rodolfo D. et al. Race, Identity and Citizenship. A Reader. Malden Massachusetts:

Blackwell. 2003 (1999).