Mujeres Malas

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This seminar will analyze the notion of "bad women" in Pre-modern and Latin American Literature and visual texts. Perception, representation, and stereotyping of these women, both historical and fictional, as Mad, Witch, Femme fatal, Hysterical, and Crazy, will allow us to follow the ideological narrative that produced these characters. Some of them are based on medical, primitive, political, and even psychoanalytic conceptions. We will discuss the primitive Castilian epic cycle, Celestina, Carmen, the novel and the opera; Malinche, Cortéz' translator in the conquest of Mexico; and novels and short stories from contemporary authors as well as Luis Buñuel' films. Prerequisite: HISP 0730 or 0740 .