ENGL 223L: Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature

This course will offer a survey of Latino/a/x literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American migrations to the U.S. In addition to encountering a range of genres, students in this course will explore concepts, such as the bilingual self; the barrio vs. the borderland; immigrant autobiography; and the construction of ethnic American literature itself.