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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | ENGLB237001 |
Course Title | Latinx Memory/State Violence |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
Instructor | Harford Vargas,Jennifer |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | TAYG |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2129 This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state-sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range of genres—including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals—to explore how memory and the imagination can contest state-sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and imagine justice. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 25; Freshmen Spaces 5. If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors) |
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