Spanish 373rw - Seminar: Topics in Cultural Movements in Spanish America-Radical Words: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Livable Worlds

Sem:CultrlMov-T-Radical Words

Fall
2023
01
4.00
Michelle Joffroy

W F 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
SPN-373rw-01-202401
Hatfield 201
mjoffroy@smith.edu
When your world is on fire, what can words do? This course explores how Latin American women intellectuals, dissidents and cultural revolutionaries (20th and early 21st centuries) have confronted unlivable realities and imagined radical alternatives. Students read works crafted on the front lines of social upheaval and in the face of ecological catastrophe, analyzing different modes of representation: testimonial, memoir, experimental fiction, visual narrative, and political manifestos. They will also gain understanding of social forces shaping the cultural imaginaries of the time: Black and Queer liberation and Indigenous sovereignty movements, struggles against state violence, and ecological, anarchist and revolutionary feminisms. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required. 

[CE] JR/SR only

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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