SPN 402 - Dressing Up the Canon: Cross-Dressing in Hispanic Literature and Film

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) The course is a survey of literary and cinematic texts in the Hispanic world that adopt cross-dressing as a subversive device to reflect on and deal with the questioning of authority at various arenas (gender roles, sexual and national identities, politics, and cultural hegemony). Authors and directors such as Juana Inés de la Cruz, García Lorca, Luis Riaza, Paloma Pedrero, Isaac Chocrón, Diana Raznovich, Arturo Ripstein, and Pedro Almodóvar will be studied, as well as critical theory readings that will frame the class discussions. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL