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The U.S.-Mexican Border is subject to vivid and controversial discussions in politics, literature and the media. This course will focus on the relations between different cultures in the borderland between Mexico and the United States. We will look at how these cultures are perceived and how the border is represented in contemporary literature. By analyzing American as well as Mexican literary texts, we will attempt to tackle differences as well as similarities in style, character representation and language. We will consider these texts from an inter-American perspective and apply concepts such as transnationalism, cultural hybridity and intertextuality. Among the authors we will discuss are Ana Castillo, T.C. Boyle, Rolando Hinojosa, Sandra Cisneros and Carlos Fuentes. A reader of course material will be available at the copy shop at Reckhammerweg 4 in the course of the first week of the semester. |
