Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 6 · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 7 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area FDescriptionThis course provides an introduction to authors, topics, and societal issues in Latina/o literature from the 19th century to the present. Readings cover a variety of literary forms: novels, short stories, poems, drama, autobiography, and/or essays. This course will review Latina/o literature in relation to political movements and consider how Latina/o literature engages issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, immigration, colonialism, and decolonialism, while exploring diverse spaces in which Latina/os make community in the United States. A variety of critical lenses will be used in the study of literature, including critical race, gender, and sexuality studies, and critical and comparative ethnic studies. We will consider how literature is fundamental in working through social justice issues within the Latina/o communities and at large. The course is cross listed as ENG 013. 