Latin American/Latino Life-Writing, Performativity, and cultural politics
This Hispanic Studies Senior Seminar on Life-writing, Performativity & Cultural Politics is designed to engage students in life-writing discourses, theoretical frameworks on intersubjectivities, positionalities, and contesting representations, reading/viewing/listening to a relevant body of contemporary fictional and non-fictional works. These Latin American/Latino narratives include embodied tapestries, an installation of corporeal artifacts, self-portraits & visual chronicles against gender violence, a biographical fiction, a graphic biopic, a journal from a concentration camp, a collective testimonial against genocide, journalistic chronicles about a dictatorship, subjective documentaries, cinematic discourses, a borderland queer memoir, and selected political thriller teleseries chapters.
- Teacher: Magdalena Maiz-Pena