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Colonial/Postcolonial Encounters: Europe, Africa and the Americas

Spanish College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

SPAN

Course Number

333

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MSPA: Major-Spanish, ENAM: Minor-American Stud Elective, ENSP: Minor-Spanish Elective, NAME: Minor-American Studies, NSPA: Minor-Spanish

Course Short Title

Colonial/Postcolonial Encounte

Course Long Title

Colonial/Postcolonial Encounters: Europe, Africa and the Americas

Course Description

Focuses on the interdisciplinary aspects of literature and texts that represent colonial, neo-colonial and post-colonial encounters (Columbus and the "cannibals;" Malinche and Cortez; Pocahontas and John Smith; Prospero and Caliban; contemporary migrants and the immigration officials at the sea or land border of USA or Spain). Students will have the opportunity to discuss the notions of power and powerlessness, center and periphery, purity and hybridism, First and Third World, cultural identity and globalization that may be present in these encounters.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Restrictions

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Equivalent Course(s)

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