MULTICULTURAL LATIN AMERICA

Catalog description

While introducing the student to the social and historical context in which the literary works were written, the course will emphasize the following issues: gender, class, race, language and nation building. Multiculturalism in these literary texts addresses themes of indigenous and African cultures in the Caribbean and throughout South America, as well as themes of displacement and immigration, and in doing so includes the cultural practices written by Jewish, Italian, Asian, Middle Eastern and other immigrant communities across Latin America.