SPA 321Latin Amer & Latine Cultures

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LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINE CULTURES THROUGH LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS. From a historical perspective and through the analysis of different cultural representations and practices (prehispanic myths, graffities, urban culture, photography, literature, music, film, food), the course draws a panoramic image of Latin America and how its culture has been determined by colonialism, imperialism, racism, social inequity, political turmoil, and extractivism. The course places Latin America and its diaspora as sites of struggle and resistance that are not only objects of study but also sites of knowledge production. The corpus includes different theoretical approaches such as ecocriticism, health humanities, care studies, and gender studies in order to understand the complexity of Latin American and U.S. Latine cultures.