LIT 357 Latinx Street Literature
3 hours
This course explores how Latinx writers develop a street sensibility that creates avenues for self, social, and historical knowledges through literary expression. The narrative challenge for U.S. Latinx writers is to take a language of the street that involves violence, gang life, poverty, hypermasculinity, and addiction and reshape it into a literary form. Several questions will inform our readings: How does street language translate into poetics? Where does street literature fit within canonical American aesthetics?