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Please Note: This course is located in the Dorothy Rubel Room on the Main UA Campus NOT in Oro Valley as was originally advertised.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have for over 400 years been the subject of numerous Spanish, Mexican, Mexican-American, Native-American, and Anglo-American writers and artists. From early accounts of exploration to more recent narratives, this course looks at this region’s diverse dimensions—culture, society, language, demography, and geopolitics. It mainly focuses on Mexican and Mexican-American narrative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, film, and music over the past two decades. Among their creators are Sandra Cisneros, Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alvaro “Tito” Ríos (Arizona’s first poet laureate), and Norma Cantú. All selections will be in the original English or in translation.
Registration Opens Online: Monday, August 12, 2019 at 8AM (AZ Time)
Required Reading:
Tom Miller. Writing on the Edge. A Borderlands Reader (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2003, or any later edition)
Luis Alberto Urrea. The Devil’s Highway. A True Story. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005, or any later edition)
- Selections from the following PDFs will be distributed electronically to all enrolled students: Herencia PDF, Canícula PDF, Border Readings PDF, Almanac of the Dead PDF
