Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'Weird Feelings: Unsettling Latin American Short Fiction' |
Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
Term: Fall Semester 2024 |
Description: In this course we will read and discuss a group of short stories written by contemporary female, queer and trans Latin American authors. These stories deal with (among other weird feelings and states) the uncanny, the unsettling and the horror of daily life as well as processes of becoming, embodiment and disidentification. This course considers the intersections of identity and imagination, race, gender, and class. Special attention is given to the way in which these writings depict oppression and resilience and how they reinvent the Latin American short story writing tradition. Authors may include Ivan Monalisa, Guadalupe Nettel, Mariana Enriquez, Camila Sosa, and Claudia Salazar. |
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
Adriana Pitetta   |           | apitetta@mtholyoke.edu   |
Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024   | Seminar   | Tuesday and Thursday   | 09:00AM - 10:15AM   | CIRU - Ciruti   | 217   | Weekly |
Requisite Courses         | ||
Prereq: Two 200-level Spanish courses above SPAN-212. | Take previously   | Required   |
Comments         |
Additional Comments         |
Taught in Spanish.   |
Course Tags         | ||
LATAM0001   | LATAM: Latin American Studies minor   | This course has been approved to count towards the Latin American Studies major and/or minor.   |
Cross-listed Sections         |
SPAN-330WE-02 Weird Feelings:LatAm ShortFic   |
GNDST-333WE-02 Weird Feelings:LatAm ShortFic   |
Course Availability | ||||
Section status: Closed     | Capacity: 16     | Enrollment: 16     | Available: 0     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
To be determined. |           |           |
Additional Book Comments         |
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |