Readings

1.       The Era of Discovery

2.       Chronicles or Memoirs written by Spanish explorers and settlers.

3.       Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

4.       The colonial Period.

5.       The Oral Tradition Indigenous Profile

6.       La Llorona

7.       The Prize of Freedom

8.       The Value of Family Familia

9.       My name

10.   Tales Told Under the Mango Tree.

11.   Coming of Age: the frontier between two different worlds

12.   From the Greatest Performance

13.   Migrants and Exiles

14.   Borinkins in Hawaii

15.   Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon

16.   Constructing the Self

17.   The Angel Juan Moncho

18.   Womanhood versus Manhood

19.   Filomena

20.   Nilda

21.   La doctora Barr

22.   Bilingual poetry (examples by these authors): Tato Laviera, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Josefina Baez