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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | ENGLB382001 |
| Course Title | Race and Speculative Fiction |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Harford Vargas,Jennifer |
| Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2521 Just as colonization is an act of speculative fiction, imagining and violently imposing a different world, so too does decolonization rely on the power of imagination. This course will explore how Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Asian American cultural producers deploy speculative fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of racism, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, environmental destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in works by writers, filmmakers, and artists such as Octavia Butler, Sabrina Vourvoulias, N.K. Jemison, Ken Liu, Alex Rivera, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, as well as anthologies such as Walking the Clouds and Nets for Snaring the Sun. In doing so, we will probe the role that literature, film, and graphic narratives can play in decolonizing knowledge. Students will be also introduced to key theoretical concepts such as modernity/coloniality; ethnic futurisms (Afro-Futurism, Latinxfuturism, Indigenous Futurism, etc.); marvelous realism; survivance, and social death that will help them unpack the critical work accomplished by genre fiction and query the ways in which the aesthetic imagination can contribute to social justice. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach; Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 15; 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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