SPN 332 - An Introduction to Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Cultures

Course Units: 1.0

This course exposes students, through selected readings dealing with the black experience in Latin America, to African diaspora literature particular to Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking regions. It bridges various genres and artistic media (narrative, poetry, drama, film, music) in order to provide a general sense - aesthetic, material and cultural, theoretical and cross-temporal - of different manners in which black diasporic expressions have intervened in the re-creation, transformation, and interrogation of Afro identities in Latin America. As such, this course examines these expressions as locutions that enrich our perceptions of social, cultural, economic, religious, gender, and sexual social orders and identities related to the black experience in the hemisphere. Prerequisite(s): Two 250-299 courses, or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL ISP: AFR, LAS