ENGL 62E Introduction to Latino/a Literature

Units: 3
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Grade Options: Letter Grade
General Education: Delta Area 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
Term Typically Offered: Every spring term
This course introduces students to Latin America literature from Colonial Period to present: indigenous legends, chronicles, epistles, poetry, novel, drama, and short story. Critical reading of Latino/a literature and its relationship to social issues and identity politics of Latinos/as will be discussed. Literary movements will be studied, for example, the Boom, the New Latin American Cinema, and magical realism. Major authors may include but not limited to Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, and Octavio Paz. (HBCU, UC, CSU)