Spanish 230in - Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Culture and Society-Indigeneity Across the Americas

From a hemispheric and multilingual perspective, this course examines Indigenous experiences across the Americas through visual art, nonfiction, and literary traditions, with an emphasis on Latin American Spanish-speaking regions. Focusing on Mexico, Central America, the Andes, the Southern Cone, and Indigenous authors from the U.S in translation into Spanish, students analyze and compare transhistorical representations of Indigeneity and how Indigenous oral, visual, and literary traditions articulate histories of resistance, memory, and aesthetic innovation from pre- Hispanic times to the present. The course includes Nahua codices, the Popol Vuh, and authors such as José María Arguedas, Rigoberta Menchú, and Joy Harjo. Prerequisite: SPN 220. Restrictions: SPN 230 may be repeated once with a different topic. Enrollment limited to 20.

[CE] SPN 230 Limit; Prereq: SPN 220