LIT420

Culture Clash. “The Mission.” Lengua fresca: Latinos writing on the edge, edited by H. Augenbraum and I. Stavans, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, pp. 130–135. https://archive.org/details/lenguafrescalati00auge
To read the play script on pages 130-135, you will need to create a free account on Internet Archive. The same website will be used to access other readings in this course.

Gómez-Peña, G. “Documented/Undocumented.” The Graywolf annual five: Multi-cultural literacy, edited by R. Simonson and S. Walker, Graywolf Press, 1988, pp. 127–134. https://archive.org/details/graywolfannualfi00simo
To read the full text, you will need to use the free Internet Archive account that you created to read The Mission.

Gómez-Peña, G. “Border Brujo: A performance poem” (from the series
“Documented/Undocumented”). TDR (1988-), vol. 35, no. 3, 1991, pp. 49–66. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.10.2307.1146131&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=natuniv
As you read this poem, consider what this poem says about the hybridity of border culture.

Díaz, J. “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” The New Yorker, 23 July 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/23/the-cheaters-guide-to-love.
Read Junot Díaz's short story, The Cheater's Guide to Love, on the New Yorker website.

Díaz, J. “GhettoNerd at the end of the world: 1974-1987.” The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, Riverhead Books, 2007, pp. 11-33.
https://archive.org/details/briefwondrouslif0000diaz
Please note that this text contains derogatory terms for individuals based on their race and gender.

Zoot Suit Riots. PBS Distribution, 2002. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3a%2f%2ffod.infobase.com%2fPortalPlaylists.aspx%3fwID%3d102577%26xtid%3d44108
To learn more about the Zoot Suit riots that broke out in Los Angeles in 1943, watch this 54-minute documentary.

Anderson, S. “Junot Díaz Hates Writing Short Stories,” The New York Times, 27 Sept. 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/magazine/junot-diaz-hates-writing-short-stories.html.

Bennett, L. “Sentimental Education: How Junot Díaz Learned to Love,” The New Republic, 17 Sept. 2012, https://newrepublic.com/article/107230/junot-diaz-this-is-how-you-lose-her.