Exposes students to Mexican literature from its indigenous and Hispanic origins to its more contemporary expressions. Examines and discusses representative authors from all literary periods, including such literary icons as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Manuel Gutierrez Nijera, Mariano Azuela, Ignacio Altamairano, Rosario Castellanos, Ruan Rulfo, Octavio Paz Carlos Fuentes, Jose Agustin, and Laura Esquivel.
In the beginning of the semester we talked about indigenous literature from Mexico an example of what we read is Popul Vuh, we then read literature examples from the conquest by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Hernan Cortez. From there on we read a variety of novels in which we see traces of the Mexican Revolution for example Pedro Paramo, Los de abajo, and El Zarco. For each novel or story that we read we had a 20 question quiz and we discussed the novel during class. Throughout the semester we also had to write two essays analyzing a story of our choice. For our final presentation we were give a list of Mexican authors and their short stories and we had to choose one and with a partner give a 10 minute presentation about the author and short story. For this assignment I worked with a partner and presented on a short story by Juan Rulfo called ¡Diles que no me maten!