Breaking the Mold: Gender Representation(s) in Hispanic Literature and Culture
Sandra Eleta, Artist Edita (la del plumero), Panamá (Edita, Panama), from the series La servidumbre (Servitude), 1978–89. Courtesy of Galería Arteconsult S.A., Panama.
This course applies an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to study the representation of women and gender in film, literature, visual arts and drama. While providing a broad overview of scholarly research and theory pertaining to women and gender, centered on underrepresented communities in the Hispanic world, you will also analyze how women themselves produce and/or respond to representations of gender and women’s experience. You will learn how diverse artists sought and continue to seek new languages and forms, whether in photography, performance, poetry, etc. to reassess and re-imagine notions of sex, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity that underlie many forms of social injustice and oppression.
Texts will feature theorists and scholars as Crenshaw, Butler, Lorber, Hooks, and Lorde, among others; films as Roma, La nana and Flores de otro mundo; some of the foremost female writers of Spanish Golden Age as María de Zayas and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; and contemporary visual artists as Eleta, Burga, Gaspar, Yutsil, Bornstein and Muholi.
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All required readings and videos will be provided on Canvas.
Prerequisites: SPAN 221; and SPAN 301 or equivalent expertise in written and spoken Spanish.
Language of instruction: Spanish