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Cuauhtemoc T. Mexica
C LIT 240
Seattle Campus
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
Class description
This is an introductory writing course that will teach you strategies for doing close readings of literary texts and for writing about them. Our readings will focus on the concept of the frontier or border, and specifically of the U.S.-Mexican border, as a determining factor in American culture, through a close reading and written analysis of short stories, novels, poetry, performance pieces, film and political comics about cross-cultural encounters. Authors to be read will include Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, Américo Paredes, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Lalo Alcaraz.
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