Seeing & Naming: Conversations

Catalog description

This course explores issues of social and cultural identity that have been crucial to the development and understanding of Latin American cultures. The key theoretical problem to be addressed in all the course units is how knowledge about Latin American culture(s) is constructed, transmitted, and transformed in different historical moments and cultural contexts. While the course is mostly organized chronologically, it also considers themes synchronically, to better understand how they constitute on-going dialogues and debates at different points in time.