SPN 381Caravans/Gangs/Drugs: Cent Am?

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This course focuses on Central American and Central America-American literature and cultures. It meditates on representations of social class, gender, and national identity in post-conflict Central America and in US Central American communities. We will read poets and writers writing in and from armed conflicts who are now faced with post-conflict, globalizing societies in and out of the isthmus. Class texts include poetry, fiction, film, journalism in addition to readings in social science. in addition to films and readings in the social sciences. Prerequisites: SPN-311, 312, 314, 315, 317 or any SPN 295 on literature. Coursework in Latin American Studies highly recommended. APARICIO