SPAN 246

Spring 2022 All Classes

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Gender & Sexuality in Latina/o Literature

Credit: 3 hours.

Examination of questions of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary Latina/Latino culture through a discussion of novels, performance pieces, essays and films. Spanish majors must complete writing assignments in Spanish.

Same as LLS 246.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts
Cultural Studies - US Minority
SPAN 246 class schedule data for spring 2022
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
72127
Online
AD1
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
n.a.
Cervantes-Gomez, X
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/22-05/04/22
Degree Notes:
Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - US Minority course.
Section Info:
TOPIC TITLE: Queer Latinx Feminisms Let’s problematize what we mean by “feminism.” Let’s complicate ideas of who or what is the modern Latinx woman. From art, Latin Trap, literature, and film this is a course that brings together different versions of “feminism” through a queer Latinx lens. In this course we will intimately engage and extend the categories of body, race, gender, and sexuality through varying representations, narratives, and preconceived notions about the power of the Latinx femme in literary and artistic production in our contemporary present. We still study works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Becky G, Cardi B, Angie Cruz, Junot Díaz, Rita Indiana, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, including episodes and scenes from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Vida, Pose, among others. Our goal is to acquire familiarity with the main aesthetic, cultural, and political discourses of queerness and feminism in the formation of Latinidades in the Americas.
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