Migrat Mobil: Global Hispano

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course considers film, literature, performance, music, and visual culture from across the Spanish-speaking world that treat questions of migration and human mobility. Taking a comparative and transdisciplinary approach, students will be invited to consider how these creative works establish points of divergence and continuity relative to the following guiding questions: What does it mean to migrate, to be the child of migrants, or to form part of a given diaspora? How might we define the supposed ‘migrant subject’? What forms of mobility and immobility, broadly defined, accompany distinct experiences of migration, broadly defined? What is the role of cultural production and specific creative forms—film, literature, performance, etc. —in articulating, and even theorizing, the ‘answers’ to any one of these questions? Students can expect to encounter materials from Latin America, Spain, the United States, and Spanish-speaking Africa and Asia.