SPAN 326

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Latin America Cultural Studies II

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Credit: 3 hours.

Panoramic view of Latin American cultures since the end of the colonial period (roughly 1820) to the present. Examination of the major debates, authors and cultural issues that shaped those cultures or that were shaped by them. Specific themes may vary by semester, and may include the following: slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism, revolution, mestizaje, gender, the state, and modernization. Analysis will include diverse cultural phenomena, as well as consideration of cultural perspectives and practices.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours, if topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN 228.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59548	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	G24 Foreign Languages Building	Fornoff, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Title: Latin America Cult Studies II Section Info: Title: Beyond the Human: Animals in Latin American Culture The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked that animals are “good to think with.” His implication was that the mute inaccessibility of animals makes them a perfect imaginative space for exploring what it means to be human. In this course, we will study representations of animals in Latin American culture and examine why writers and artists “thought with animals” to work through human questions of gender, race, and sexuality. Specifically, we will look at topics including metamorphosis, pets, evolution, indigenous cosmologies, and the consumption of animals as meat. Through the lens of the nonhuman animal, students will be introduced to different questions that preoccupied thinkers in 20th and 21st century Latin America. Students must meet the prerequisite requirements for this course (found in the Catalog Entry) or will be told to drop on the first day of classes. Non-registered students are not allowed to sit in or audit.
	49961	Lecture-Discussion	G	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	G24 Foreign Languages Building	Cervantes-Gomez, X	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: TOPIC TITLE: "Sex and Power in the Latin American Aesthetic Imaginary" In this course, we will study the aesthetic representation of sex and sexuality in Latin American literary and artistic work from the mid-twentieth century to the present. With special attention to the influence—and resistance—of feminist, queer, and critical race theories, we will address the ways narratives about sex and sexuality inform and are informed by social, cultural, and political shifts. Through narrative, performance art, music, and film, this course will approach the study of gender and sexuality through a close-reading of the ways in which systems of power influence, interrupt, and interrogate the construction of sexual cultures in contemporary Latin America.