L.SPW 287 - Latin American Communities through Literature-AI

Credits: 3

Taught in English. This course will focus on subaltern identities and communities as represented in Latin American literature (written originally in Spanish). We will begin with the colonial period and move into the twenty-first century considering multiple Indigenous and Spanish speaking communities. This course will examine the mutually inscriptive relationship between community and identity, the process of formation of communities, and the personal ideologies and beliefs that challenge an individual’s role in a community. Further, the contextualization of the issues represented in the course materials in the Latin American context will require students to analyze ongoing interactions between the self and community in relation to national politics as well as the relationship of Latin America to the “developed world.”
Prerequisite: L.LIB-100; L.LIB-105; L.LIB-110; One course from L.LIB-130, L.LIB-135, or L.LIB-220
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable