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Examines major questions and issues that arise in considering race, sex, and gender together. Focus on critical and theoretical texts queering ethnic and diaspora studies and bringing race and ethnicity into queer studies. Close reading of texts in a variety of media negotiating racialized sexualities and sexualized identities. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex acts? How to reconcile pleasure and desire with histories of imperialism and (neo)colonialism and structures of power?

For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

An exploration of women's novels as an intellectual counterculture of the male-dominated Latin American literary canon. Latin American women's writing and thought will be considered in a regional and global context of feminism and feminist theory. Authors include Gómez de Avellaneda, Bombal, Castellanos, Lispector, Eltit, Oloixarac, de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Engels, Cixous, and Butler. Course discussion in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPANLANG 3 or equivalent.

A survey of Iberian theater from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Topics include evolving concepts of reality and selfhood, empire, comparisons between early modern and contemporary media ecologies, and the materiality of performance. Themes analyzed in plays by Gil Vicente, Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Some video versions of the films used to complement the readings. Class taught in Spanish, and readings in Spanish and English.

Preference for graduate students, majors are welcome. Course will focus on six major authors (Unamuno, Baroja, A. Machado, J. R. Jiménez, Valle-Inclán, García Lorca) and representative works, written between 1898 and 1930, dealing with an historical period of crisis and transition, and displaying major aesthetic innovations in both poetry and theater. Fundamental themes include the decline of feudal Galicia, the Spanish-Amrican War of 1898, the emergence and social activism of new social forces, and the struggle for and betrayal of democracy, expressed through the various genres of the novel, poetry, and theater. Major works of Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca will be examined, with special emphasis on the historical context of the first three decades of the 20th century and their contributions to the development of 20th century Spanish lyric poetry. Taught in either English or Spanish, depending on course enrollment.

Surrealism, realism, dark comedy, film genres transformed by Spanish director, Luis Bunuel in Spain, France and Mexico during the second half of the XX century. An examination of Bunuel's work from his Surrealist beginnings (L´Age d´Or, Un Chien Andalou), subsequent realistic films in Mexico (Los Olvidados, Nazarin), and a mixture of Surrealism and Realism (Viridiana, Exterminating Angel, Simon del Desierto), as well his work with dark comedy (Archibaldo de la Cruz, Belle de Jour, Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie). In Spanish.

Proposes a space of articulation between theoretical reflection and analytical practice that allows to address, from language, the symbolic plot of the constitution of subjects and identities in diverse auto/biographical registers--texts, images, representations, testimonies, narratives; the affirmation of their voices: the search for senses, memories and values. Through a trans-disciplinary perspective, prominence will be given to cultural objects, debates and issues of great relevance in the current Latin American scene.