Special Topics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

3 units

CULTURAL HETEROGENEITY? TRANSCULTURATION? HYBRIDISM? WHAT IS ALL THAT ANYWAY. In this course we will examine and question theoretical paradigms such as "mestizaje," transculturation, cultural heterogeneity, colonial discourse, and hybridism for the study of primary texts written by Indians, Mestizos, Creoles, Spanish and Chicanos in colonial and post-colonial Latin American Literature.