Spanish 240VC - Visualiz. Indigenous Cultures

Spain and Latin America may be oceans apart but they have been co-constructed as cultural spaces since the colonial period. In this class, we will trace the way indigenous peoples of the Americas were seen and represented by some of the earliest colonial-era writers, like Cristobal Colon and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. We will then move up to the 19th century to explore European travel writers' accounts of indigenous groups their representation in visual art, particularly landscape painting. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we will interrogate Indigenismo and indigenous communities' use of new media - photography and video-- as tools of self-representation. The course will be conducted in Spanish.