SPAN 213 US Latino Identity in Literature, Film and Music
Interdisciplinary study of the performance of US Latino/a identity through the study of literature, music, visual arts. and media arts in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine literary texts, music, musicals, films, visual arts, and TV shows and other media arts by major US Latino/a and non-US Latino/a figures such as Hector Tobar, Gloria Anzald˙a, Esmeralda Santiago, Oscar Hijuelos, Sandra Cisneros, Amparo EscandÛn, Celia Cruz, Selena, RubÈn Blades, Ritchie Valens, Gregory Nava, Luiz ValdÈs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, George Lopez, JosÈ Antonio Burciaga, Yreina Cervantez,among others. This course fulfills literature and humanities distribution requirements; it will be conducted in English.