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In this course, we will engage with the diverse and unique ways writers and artists perform and tell stories about their Latinidad. With special attention to deviance and divadom, the course materials underscore how Latinx women and LGBTQ persons push the limits of gender and sexuality in our contemporary popular culture. Through narrative, film, music, and performance art, we will ask questions about feminism, race, queerness, family, identity formation, community, and language. Guiding our readings is an inquiry into how writers and artists defy expectations defy expectations of who and...

This seminar focuses on the implications, possibilities, and failures of a Latin America “of sex” or rather a Latin America “with a sexuality.”   In The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Michel Foucault posits, “We...are in a society of ‘sex,’ or rather a society ‘with a sexuality’: the mechanisms of power are addressed to the body, to life, to what causes it to proliferate, to what reinforces the species, its stamina, its ability to dominate, or its capacity for being used” (147). Foucault’s reading of sexuality’s evolving historical position in modern societies describes how sex and...