Profesor Luis Dávila
Email: davilal@indiana.edu

S588	U.S. Latino Literature

TR 9:30am – 10:45am/section #24886/3cr./Woodburn Hall 203

The course is essentially a panamoramic view of U.S. Latino
literature.  Many of the readings assigned are listed on the new
M.A. reading list of required readings.  These will be discussed
intensely.
		
Special emphasis will be given to treating the emerging post-
nationlist consciousness of U.S. Latino literature, the movable
center of race and ethnicity, third world hybridity, and the
continued dialogic bilingual rhetoric between Spanish and English.
Borderland theory, feminist criticism, post-colonial criticism will
also be incorporated.

Readings from writers such as Tomás Rivera, Richard Rodríguez, Julia
Alvarez, Rosario Ferré, Pedro Juan Soto, Sandra Cisneros and others
will serve as a basis for our discussions.  Some guiding lectures
will be presented, but in great part the class will follow a seminar
format.

There will be a midterm paper and also one at the end, more
substantive and global in nature.   No final exam.