Comparative Literature 693B - Aztec Manuscripts

This course will explore Native American pictorial narrative manuscripts traditions of the Aztec, Maya, and Mixtec peoples, including historical, religious, and calendrical works, and related visual programs in preserved murals, ceramics, and other media, from monuments to mirrors. These manuscripts continue to play important roles in the preservation of Indigenous identity and solidarity and cultural identity within nation states, and the course will examine public, popular, and fine arts reviving, repurposing, and supporting resistance using this imagery.