INGL 8301
Contextual readings:
Introductory critical readings:
Hem Raj Kafle – “Diaspora Studies”
Vanessa Perez-Rosario – “The Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies”
Ada Ferrer – “History and the Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies”
Allison Fagan – “Translating in the Margins: Attending to Glossaries in Latina/o Literature”
TED Talk/Transcription – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
Primary literary texts to be analyzed in the course:
Jesús Colón – The Way it Was and Other Writings
Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa – Daughters of the Stone
Esmeralda Santiago – Las Madres
Reinaldo Arenas – Before Night Falls
Ruth Behar – The Vulnerable Observer
Pablo Medina – Cubop City Blues
Achy Obejas – Memory Mambo
Julia Alvarez – In the Time of the Butterflies
Junot Díaz – This is How You Lose Her
Rita Indiana – Papi
Angie Cruz – How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Additional critical articles on the authors’ works:
Linda Delgado – Jesus Colon and the Making of a NYC Community
Adalaine Holten – “Little Things Are Big”: Race and the Politics of Print Community…
Defining Race in Piri Thomas’ Down These Mean Streets
Roberta Hurtado - Decolonial Resilience in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Christina Lam – Flipping the Script: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Comments and Reviews – Esmeralda Santiago
Monica Simal - Reinaldo Arenas
Susana Martinez - Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar
Pablo Medina - The Tampa Cubans and the Culture of Exile
Belen Rodriguez Mourelo - La narrativa de Pablo Medina
Amrita Das – Contesting Identity in Achy Obejas
Katherine Lashley - Dede as Feminist in Julia Alvarez
Ellen Jones – Reading Junot Diaz
Maria Lauret - Translingualism in Junot Diaz
Megan Myers - Julia Alvarez and Junot Diaz
Juan Duchesne Winter - Rita Indiana
Kristie Soares – Dominican Futurism…in the works of Rita Indiana