2022-23 Academic Catalog

Latin American culture is populated with monsters. As manifestations of racial, gendered, and class difference, they can be found in artistic production all over the hemisphere. This course explores these narratives, primarily focusing on the cannibal, the witch, and the zombie as representations of difference, fear, and colonialism in Latin America. We will analyze literary and visual production from the sixteenth century to the present in order to strengthen students’ analytical and written skills in Spanish. Emphasis will be given to methods to ‘reading’ our materials, to learning how to approach those sources from different cultural and critical perspectives, as well as to produce written reactions and analysis. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent