AP/SP 4690 6.00

Writing Identity and Mestizaje: Discourses of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Spanish American Literature

This course focuses on the pivotal role of language, writing, images and texts in the construction of shifting identities in Spanish America. It explores the intersection among subjectivity, ethnicity, narrative, and colonialism by analyzing how indigenous, mestizo or Afro-American subjects appropriate the Spanish language to resist colonial practices and to construct a shared cultural memory. In so doing, the course traces an alternate literary tradition that challenges both the Early Modern paradigm of Christian expansion and more contemporary expressions of national ideology.
Prerequisites: AP/SP 2200 6.00. Course credit exclusions: None.