Schedule of Readings:
Week 1: Introduction – Defining Latino/a and Gothic literature
- Handout – Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands poem
- Maria Cristina Mena, “The Vine Leaf”
- Jerrold E. Hogle, “Introduction: The Gothic in Western Culture” (CCGF)
Week 2: Race and the Gothic Abject
- Calligraphy of the Witch
- Allan Lloyd Smith, “What Is American Gothic?”
Week 3: Images of Women in Gothic Literature
- Calligraphy of the Witch
Week 4: Defining Magical Realism Against the Gothic
- Bless Me, Ultima
Week 5: Images of the Sacred and Profane
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Lucie Armitt, “The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic”
Week 6: La Llorona in the Chicana Gothic
- The Hungry Woman
- Tanya González, “The (GOTHIC) Gift of Death in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea”
- [250 word research proposal and annotated bibliography for research paper due.]
Week 7: Haunted Children
- Screen: Grimm – La Llorona
Week 8: Defining the Grotesque and Gothic Bodies
- Gods Go Begging
Week 9: Dreams and Nightmares: War and the Gothic
- Gods Go Begging
- Steffen H. Hantke, “The Uses of the Fantastic and the Deferment of Closure in American Literature on the Vietnam War” PDF
Week 10: LA Gothic
- Their Dogs Came With Them
Week 11: Urban Gothic
- Their Dogs Came With Them
- [Class Presentation sign-ups]
Week 11: Gendered Grotesque
- Their Dogs Came With Them
Week 13: Ghostly Curses
- What You See in the Dark
- Screen: Psycho
Week 14: Gothic Noir
- What You See in the Dark
- Charles Scruggs, “‘The Power of Blackness’: Film Noir and Its Critics”
Week 15: Class Presentations
[Essay Due]