COMP 347
Chicana/Latina Feminist Literature and Thought Spring 2015
Division I
Cross-listed WGSS 335 / LATS 331 / ENGL 368
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This seminar surveys a broad selection of works by Chicana and Latina authors. Foundational texts within Chicana feminism by Norma Alarcon, Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, and Emma Pérez will situate our readings of the diverse corpus of literature produced by Chicana/Latina authors in the United States, including Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina Garcia, and Helena Maria Viramontes. Readings of novels, short stories, poems, essays, and plays by Chicana, Cuban American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican American authors provide students with a range of experiences and literary styles that comprise this body of works. Students will ask how the diversity of these texts (in style, in author, in subject) bespeak a shared or distinct experience across differences. Particular attention will be given to the challenges that Chicana/ Latina thinkers and writers pose towards the studies of nationalist movements, literary genres, cultural production, and feminisms.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 14
Class#: 4094
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: students will be evaluated on weekly write-ups, in-class presentations on the readings, three short papers, and a final annotated bibliography
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: seniors/juniors and LATS concentrators
Distributions: Division I
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP or ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under LATS or WGSS
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 347 Division I WGSS 335 Division II LATS 331 Division II ENGL 368 Division I
Attributes: LATS Core Electives

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