SPAN333
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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Equivalent Course(s)
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