Spanish 592A - S-Latinidades Across/Americas

In this course, we will use our bodies and our minds to study the cultures and ways of Latinxs and those of contemporary indigenous people with roots in Latin American. In selected readings, film screenings, and a performance workshop with renowned Chilean dramaturge and artist Ivan Monalisa, students will examine notions of the noble savage, the mongrel, the Indian, the Mexican, informing US hegemonic cultural perceptions, rules of law, and human interactions for centuries. Reading selections of poetry, short story, short novels, and essays by continental Latinx, Zapotec, Mixtec, Mayan, and Quechua writers, we will challenge US imaginings where "wild tongues" (Gloria Anzaldua 1987) and other forms of Hemispheric Brownness connect Latinxs to Indigenous peoples of Latin American.