CWL 562

Spring 2016

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Sem Spanish-American Lit
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as SPAN 535. See SPAN 535.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
35629
Lecture-Discussion
G
4:30PM -6:30PM
R
1126 Foreign Languages Building
Karam, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/19/16-05/04/16
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TOPIC TITLE: "Writing Migration into Latin America and the Caribbean." Though often assumed to be only places of departure, Latin America and the Caribbean have been imagined through the arrival, settlement, and passage of migrants from the four corners of the globe since the nineteenth century. This course looks at their mobile presence in mostly Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago. By attending to the ways that migrants were marked by and wrote themselves into so-called “Latin America” or the "Caribbean," our goal is to rethink this hemisphere's very formation and boundaries. Based in cultural studies, history, and literary criticism, this course attends to distinct flows of migrants, including Arabs, Asians, Germans, Italians, Jews, Portuguese, Spaniards, as well as more recent intra-Latin American and Caribbean itinerants. We will focus on the “politics” of their migration, or the ways that such flows have merged, and merged with, wider dynamics. We will study migrants’ language maintenance, loss, and shift in their new national settings, the interplay of class and ethnicity among Italians, Portuguese, and Spaniards in the dramatic genre of sainete criollo and other media in the region of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), orientalism in Arab and Jewish self-identification with the figure of the gaucho across the pampas, East Asian and North European engagement with criollo and other racial categories, as well as gender and family relations in mitigating national borders and transnational networks, among other topics.
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