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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42570
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 206
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
Saints guide us, spirits frighten us, and female spitfires wrote the book on behaving badly. In this course, we’ll explore these assumptions about cultural figures and myths emerging from Latinx culture by reading and discussing fiction, poetry, music, television, film, and visual art. We’ll look at the figure of the Our Lady of Guadalupe, her origins in pre-Columbian mythology, and her appearances in contemporary literature and art, including Sandra Cisneros’s WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK. We’ll investigate the Day of the Dead tradition in Mexico, watch film representations of the Day of the Dead, and glimpse the spirit world through reading about the ghostly mother spirit of La Llorona. We’ll meet La Loca, the young heroine who dies and rises again in Ana Castillo’s SO FAR FROM GOD, and Ultima, the mysterious healing woman in Rudolfo Anaya’s BLESS ME, ULTIMA. We’ll explore the spitfire bad-girl image through the figures of Frida Kahlo and others, and unpack both the limiting and liberating aspects of this image. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the WAC Writing Intensive requirement.
4 Credits