Caribe Queer

Catalog description

The Hispanophone Caribbean and its diasporas have created a vibrant literary and more broadly artistic catalogue through which to think formations of gender and sexuality in racial, political, and economic context. In this course, we focus on 20th- and 21st- century Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban queer and trans authors, characters, artists, and themes. We discuss literary, poetic, and artistic material within a set of historical and theoretical frames. We ask how Hispanophone Caribbean literature and art portray and theorize racial, gendered, and sexual life in relation to historical and contemporary structures of power. A playlist featuring queer and trans Caribbean artists complements the course. Most readings are in Spanish. Class discussions and assignments are in Spanish.