Etnias Y Minorías En La Literatura De Los Estados Unidos Asignatura Optativa: Primer Ciclo, 6 Créditos Asignatura Sin Docencia

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Etnias y Minorías en la Literatura de los Estados Unidos Asignatura Optativa: Primer Ciclo, 6 créditos Asignatura sin docencia

Dra. Carmen M. Méndez García [email protected] Curso 2011/12

OBJETIVOS

This course deals with the literary and cultural production of ethnic and social minorities in the United States. The United States’ complex ethnic and social map lends a multicultural and idiosyncratic character to its arts and institutions, while also articulating the reality of the country and its inhabitants. By questioning the traditional literary canon and analyzing the debates in North American universities in the last three decades, students are supposed to examine the social, ideological and literary questions that influence the production and reception of texts produced by ethnic groups and minorities.

PROGRAMA

1. Minorities. Ethnic groups. Minority social groups. The ‘Canon Wars’. Models of assimilation/coexistence. 2. Latino/Chicano studies. 3. Native American studies. 4. Asian-American studies. 5. Lesbian/gay/queer studies. COMPULSORY READINGS

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (novel) Audre Lorde: Zami. A New Spelling of my Name (novel) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (novel) Selected poems & short stories: Denise Chavez, Simon J. Ortiz, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Pedro Pietri, Tato Laviera, Willie Perdomo, Audre Lorde). Other Selections – theoretical texts and articles (Gilman, Anzaldúa, Fuentes, Zimmerman, Tan).

[All the readings will be available at the photocopy room]

COURSE EVALUATION CRITERIA

- Final exam: 100% of the final grade. - Two parts in the final exam: o A. The students will have to choose two (2) questions out of five, and develop them in the form of a short essay. The questions will be related to: . The analysis of a specially relevant issue or theme in one or more of the different minority groups covered in the course, or . The analysis of a specially relevant issue or theme in one or more or the compulsory texts for the course (see list above). Max. grade for each of the questions in this part: 3,5 points. 1 o B. Text analysis: the students will have to choose one (1) text out of two texts presented to them, and analyse their main ideas in the context of the minority the author belongs to. These texts will be “new”, i.e. not part of the compulsory readings. Max. grade for this part: 3 points.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abelove, Henry, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. N.Y.: Routledge, 1993. Allen, Paula Gunn. Spider Woman's Granddaughters. N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, 1989. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters& Aunt Lute, 1987. Bruce-Novoa, Juan D. La literatura Chicana a través de sus autores. México: Siglo Veintiuno, 1983. Chan, Jeffrey, Frank Chin, Lawson Inada & Shawn Wong. The Big Aiieeeee! an Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature. N.Y.:Penguin, 1993. Krupat, Arnold. For Those Who Come After. A Study of Native American Autobiography. Berkeley: U.California Press, 1985. Krupat, Arnold. The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley, Oxford: University of California Press, 1989. Lim, Shirley and Amy Ling. Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple U.P., 1992. Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This Bridge Called My Back. Writings by Radical Women of Color. N.Y: Women of Color Press, 1981. Noriega, Chon et al., eds. The Chicano Studies Reader: an Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000. Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2001. Ruoff, LaVonne Brown and Jerry W. Ward Jr., eds. Redefining American Literary History. N.Y.: The Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1990. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men. English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. N.Y.: Columbia U.P., 1985. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. Durham: Duke U.P., 1993. Wong, Sau-ling. Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1993. Zimmerman, Bonnie. The Safe Sea of Women. Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.