Spanish 246 - TOPICS IN LATIN AMERICAN LIT

Spring
2015
01
4.00
Michelle Joffroy
TTh 10:30-11:50
Smith College
40569-S15
HATFLD 203
mjoffroy@smith.edu
Topics course. This course explores the social and cultural expression of Zapatismo from its initial revolutionary uprising in the Mexican indigenous borderlands of Chiapas on New Year's Eve, 1994 through its present-day global vision of an alternative world model. Through close analysis of the movement's diverse cultural media, including communiques, radio broadcasts, visual art, web blogs and storytelling, students examine the role of media arts and literary forms in Zapatismo's cultural and political philosophies, as well as develop a broad understanding of Zapatismo's influence in popular and indigenous social movements throughout Latin America and the global south. Course taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPN 220. Enrollment limited to 19.
Topic: Zapatismo Now: Cultural Resistance on the "Other" Border.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.