August 27, 2012
- First day of class
- Introductions / Expectations / Policies
September 3, 2012
- Labor Day: No Classes
September 10, 2012
- Before Sunday, September 9, 12pm, blog your Bildungsroman article. Read and respond to the posts of others.
- For class: Read: Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
- Read: Maria Karafilis. “Crossing the Borders of Genre: Revisions of the Bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John.”
- Write a response to the reading and discussion questions I post.
September 17, 2012
- Read Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years
September 24, 2012 – Guest Speaker: Lisette Ordorica Lasater
- Read Karen Mary Davalos. “La Quinceañera”: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities
- Read Norma Cantú. La Quiñceanara: Towards an Ethnographic Analysis of a Life-Cycle Ritual.
- Read Monica Palacios.”The Dress Was Too Itchy”
- Watch: La Quinceanera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities
October 1, 2012
- Watch: Real Women Have Curves
October 8, 2012
- Read: Lorna Dee Cervantes’s “Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway”
- Read: Helena Maria Viramontes “The Moths”
- Read: Marta E. Sanchez “The Chicana as Scribe: Harmonizing Gender and Culture in Lorna Dee Cervantes’ “Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway””.
October 15, 2012
- Josie Mendez-Negrete, Hijas de Juan
October 22, 2012
- Alice Bag, Violence Girl
October 29, 2012
- Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings
November 5, 2012
- Elva Treviño Hart, Barefoot Heart
November 12, 2012
- Helena Maria Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus
November 19, 2012
- Picture Me Rollin’, Black Artemis
November 26, 2012
- Reina Prado performance
December 3, 2012
- Class Presentations
December 7, 2012
- Dinner at Dr. Perez’s — 6 – 8 pm
December 10, 2012 – FINAL EXAM