U.S. Central Americans Making Art and Memory

Limited to graduate students. Memory is trope through which U.S. Central American writers, performance, visual, media, and public artists and activists communicate across social, national, and phenomenological borders. Through contemporary theories on memory and narrativizing, introduction to U.S. Central American writers, artists, cultural activists, and historical figures. Exploration of issues including civil war, postwar, race, class, sex, gender, globalization, immigration, and identity formations. Students have option to create art, media projects, and essays that interpret readings as these relate to their lives vis-à-vis U.S. Central American cultural production.

S/U or letter grading.