ENGL 40742 - Migrating Melodramas: Latino/a Literature and Popular Culture

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course examines how various forms of popular culture from Latin America and the Caribbean migrate to the U.S. and are reappropriated by Latina/o cultural producers. Focusing particularly on theories of melodrama as a feminine discursive space, we will analyze several works of Latina/o literature that underscore women's active interpretation of music, film, and television. While this is a literature-based course, students will also examine how hybrid cultural products such as contemporary boleros, films, and telenovelas produce a transnational imaginary that connects Latinas/os in the U.S. with Latin America and the Caribbean. We will read novels such as Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, and Tomorrow They Will Kiss by Eduardo Santiago.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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