SPN 431 - Colonial Latin America 1492-1800

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the complex array of European, indigenous, mestizo and African recordings of the encounter between Europeans, slaves and native Americans that started in the fifteenth century; and at the colonization and subsequent reconfiguration and displacement of individuals, communities, and their cultures. The course analyzes in some detail the historical and theoretical issues arising from this trans- Atlantic collision and exchange, a diverse historiographic and literary production that heralded and bore witness to the many ways in which the various peoples of, and involved in, the creation of the Americas documented, perceived, and imagined the old and the new, themselves and others. We will read travel journals, poetry, drama, histories, ethnographies, and other types of textual/visual production such as films and codices. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL