ENGL169 PO - Queer/Trans of Color Critique and Latinx Literature

When Offered: Irregularly.
Instructor(s): S. Torralba
Credit: 1

This course examines how literary depictions of queer and trans Latinxs can uniquely reveal how gender- and sexual-nonnormative Latinx communities routinely address and complexly challenge the ongoing violences of colonialism and white supremacy and the cis-hetero-patriarchal social logics that they make possible. To this end, this course centers the rich intersections between U.S. Latinx Studies and the critical intersectional framework of Queer/Trans of Color Critique in its study of gender- and sexual-variant Latinx representation in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, theatre, film, and performance. Emphasis will be given to 21st-century literature by self-identified queer and trans U.S.-based Latinx authors.