Spanish 373 - LITERARY MOVEMENT SPANISH AMER

Topics course. This course explores a range of critical and activist perspectives that rethink Latin American feminist theories and praxis in light of new cultural and social identities that have emerged from indigenous, autonomous and transnational social movements under neoliberal conditions. The course will use a case study approach, focusing on specific feminist nodes in distinct cultural regions that will provide the opportunity to study how particular feminist concerns are defined, critiqued, revised, appropriated and/or rejected from within these contemporary social locations. Critical frameworks will include gender, race, ethnicity, class, motherhood, the body, sexuality, land and citizenship, labor and subjectivity, and citizenship and migration. Students will engage a critical feminist vocabulary that reflects the complexities of contemporary feminist thinking and activism, including notions of intersectionality, identification, performativity, agency, and resistance. Most readings in Spanish; class conducted in Spanish. Enrollment limited to 14.

Topic: Contesting Feminisms: Transnational and Indigenous Voices Rethinking Latin American Feminisms.