Indigeneity and Representation. 4

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From its inception, Latin American cultural production has taken as a core concern the representation of Indigenous groups from the region. While these representations have not always provided reliable information about Indigenous beliefs or cultural practices, they reveal much about the societies from which they emerge. In this course, we will engage with representations of Latin American Indigenous cultures in fiction, film, testimonies, and poetry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, created by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors and filmmakers. We will analyze the meanings and values that these texts have identified with Indigenous cultures over 150 years of Latin American history.