MEXICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (ENGL 2351)

Term: 2018-2019 Spring

Faculty

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Lauren Coe

Lauren Coe

laurenc22@gmail.com

(940) 453-5741

 

B.A. English/Creative Writing     University of North Texas          2012

M.F.A. Creative Writing              New York University                 2015

 

Teaching Experience

College Instructor, Creative Writing Instructor, Workshop Leader, Writing Tutorials

 

Description

A survey of Mexican American/Chicanx literature from Mesoamerica to the present. Students will study literary works of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and memoirs in relation to their historical, linguistic, political, regional, gendered, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors, literary movements, and media forms. Topics and themes may include the literary performance of identity and culture, aesthetic mediation of racialization, struggle and protest, and artistic activism.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions; analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods; demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic