LIT 189Q Ficción y marginalidad

Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in Spanish required. Marginalized perspectives take center stage in this course that studies ways Latin American/Latino authors textually contest dominant representations and realities, opening symbolic spaces for emergent historical subjects who gain agency and authority by re/presenting unmapped terrains. Texts include chronicles, testimonios, writings of the self, and novels. Critical approach designations: Geographies, Power and Subjectivities. Distribution requirement: Global.