Spanish 260pa - Topics in Latin American Cultural History-Poetics of Ancestry

This course offers a critical approach to the Afrodiaspora and Indigenous cultural legacies in the Spanish-speaking world, promoting students’ collaborative skills, critical thinking, intercultural skills, and creativity. It introduces critical perspectives related to decoloniality, anti-racism, and intersectionality to discuss how Afro-Latin American and Indigenous literature and art by women have advanced environmental, gender, and racial justice. The course includes poems, short stories, novels, films, and performances by authors such as Ch’aska Anka Ninawaman (Peru), Ruperta Bautista (Mexico), Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico), Josefina Báez (US-Dominican Republic), among others. Prerequisite: Any topic of SPN 230, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 19.

[CE] SPN 230 (one topic)