Writing Animals in the Iberian Atlantic

Animals are our mirrors, our doubles; creatures onto which we project our notions about humanity and its limits. From Aristotle’s ladder to Mesoamerican nahualism, animals have been at the center of how we understand the world and our place in it. This course looks at Animal Studies in dialogue with Hispanic, Latin American and Indigenous Studies to explore how intersectionality illuminates discourses about the human-nonhuman divide. Drawing on studies from both sides of the Atlantic, we will analyze the main genres that have focused on the nonhuman and recent studies on sheep, pigs, the rhinoceros, llamas, and perhaps even hummingbirds.