Spanish 373 - SEM: LITERARY MOVMNT SPAN 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 uses a case study approach, focusing on specific feminist nodes in distinct cultural regions that 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 include gender, race, ethnicity, class, motherhood, the body, sexuality, land and citizenship, labor and subjectivity, and citizenship and migration. Students engage a critical feminist vocabulary that reflects the complexities of contemporary feminist thinking and activism, including notions of intersectionality, identification, performativity, agency and resistance. Enrollment limited to 14.

Topic: Indigenous Feminisms. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores