Whose Latin America(nism)?

3 units

The course will focus on the evolution of the Latin American field, from area studies to cultural studies, with special attention to some of the debates that have run across the field in the last two decades: baroque/neobaroque, modernity/postmodernity, colonialism/post-colonialism, national/post national. Theoretical and textual analysis will also give basis for an introductory reflection on the role of gender and ethnicity in the construction of collective subjectivities from colonial times to the present.