Spanish

According to Jacques Rancière art, like politics, is not by nature consensual, but rather “dissensual.” This is because of art's capacity to create not only identifications that are different from those which are given to us, but also identifications that at one point are believed to be unviable. This seminar will take that premise as point of departure to examine how literary works of the modern and contemporary period in Spain have articulated and disrupted notions of place, belonging and departure, at the level of the individual and the collective. We will study texts that explore what...

This course examines the relationship between food, culture and society in colonial Latin America and its impact on our society today including the US. Why we eat what we eat is a product of the encounters between these diverse societies (European, indigenous and African) in the past and the result of subsequent centuries of social interactions.  Our aim is to read culture through food to better understand its impact on the articulation of social hierarchies, identity constructions, cultural distinction, and power. We will discuss a variety of written and visual texts from the colonial...