SPAN 418 - Latina and Latino Literature

5 credit hours

This class will examine a diverse set of literary texts by U.S. Latinas and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Domi-nican, and Central American heritage and identities. While the peoples of these nations all share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, their immigration patterns have differed vastly-affecting not only their so-cial, cultural, and political trajectories in the United States, but also their relationships to concepts of “home” and “homel-and,” nation, diaspora, history, and memory.