Debating Cultures: Poetics of Extinction: extraction, violence, and possible futures in Latin Americ

SPANISH 3222

The increasing anxiety regarding multiple axes of violence has become a major referent for contemporary literature across Latin America. While there are international discussions and treaties to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet and deliver a livable space for the future generations, the landscape seems to be completely different for countries that depend on the extraction of fossil fuels and other resources to move their economies. This course aims to be a window to some of the ways in which contemporary writers are portraying and criticizing the duality of extraction and violence that leads to extinction, and some of the possible futures they propose while we develop our own possibilities with their help. Here, the idea is that we will see extinction in a broader sense looking at efforts to erase, suppress, and control in the name of consumerism and individual enrichment. We will explore the relationship between the extraction and usage of natural resources, the harm caused onto human and non-human bodies, and the physical, emotional, and economical violence women and other feminized individuals suffer. Some of the topics we are going to engage with include indigeneity and sovereignty, environmental and social justice, ecofeminism and ecocriticism, neoliberalism, counter-market literary practices, technology, and the overall intersection of gender, class, and race through the intertwined triad of capitalism, coloniality, and patriarchy. Materials will include short stories, poems, music, films, podcasts, performances, and essays. Among the authors to be studied, we include Isabel Zapata, Liliana Colanzi, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Lorena Cabnal, Yásnaya Aguilar Gil, Verónica Gago, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Julieta Paredes, Daniela L. Guzmán, Cristina Rivera Garza, Gladys Tzul Tzul, and others. This course will have a strong, mandatory, and graded oral communications component and is taught in Spanish. Prereq: Spanish 303 or 308D. Students who have taken mor
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; AS LCD; AS LS; AS SC

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INSTRUCTOR: Tijerina
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