Queer Aesthetics and Intimacies en español

Catalog description

This course asks what connections can be drawn among ‘queer’ texts across time, place, and different genres of writing and forms of artistic expression in Spanish, Latin American, and US Latinx cultures. By looking to literary texts and cultural objects from the 20th to 21st centuries, this course considers how non-normative sex and gender function within spaces beset by colonial, racist, and nationalist legacies and how queerness imagines being within and without these structures. Readings and discussion will be in Spanish with an option to write papers in English for non-concentrators or concentrators fulfilling one of their English-language courses.