English 137T

Other Readings and Media

"Anzald�a, G.: Borderlands/La frontera; Cisneros, S.: Caramelo, The House On Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Loose Women; Paredes, A.: Between Two Worlds, George Washington G�mez, The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories, The Shadow, ""With His Pistol in His Hand"": A Border Ballad and Its Hero "

Description

This course will explore the invention of a Chicano and Chicana sense of place. How do imaginative writers such as Am�rico Paredes, Gloria Anzald�a, and Sandra Cisneros negotiate the tension between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas measuredly and by design? Exposure to post-contemporary works in cultural criticism, border thinking, and theory will also be part of the semester's agenda.