Undergraduate Prerequisite: CASLS 350 - Provides new and contemporary perspectives on Latin American literature and culture. Can focus on some specific works through their connection to avant-garde movements, questions of identity and politics, media and the arts, canonical and marginal authors. Topics for Fall 2024: Section A1: Narrating the Self. This course focuses on contemporary Latin American texts that blend the boundaries between fiction and autobiography to address issues around intersectional identities, love, race, femininity, queerness, and climate change. Section B1: ¡Vivas nos queremos!: Feminist Resistance to Femicide. In this course we study literary and artistic contributions to the political struggle against femicide in Latin America. We engage with feminist scholarship on violence against women and examine works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Selva Almada, Mariana Enriquez, and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.

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