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May 04, 2024
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ARGS 850 - Diaspora and Space in Hispanic Fiction and Film3 credits
This course will examine current theories on migration, borderlands, displacement , and deterritorialization/reterritorialization that occur as a result of real or virtual global movements of peoples and artifacts. We will rethink notions of roots, routes, and the experience of separation and entanglement in diasporic communities as they selectively preserve and recover traditions, and acquire new ones. Identity is seen as occupying a “thirdspace” -no longer the home of origin, nor fully integrated into the new one– tentative and flexible, which is constantly shifting and changing in an endless process of reformulation. We will consider the role of space and the environment as sites of power and contestation, and the transformation of private and public spaces in hybrid and transnational communities. The above theories will be applied to case studies, as follows: a) contemporary Latin American migrants to the United States and Spain; b) cultural artifacts, such as food and music; c) historical diasporas of Africans and Jews in Latin America seen through a colonial and postcolonial lens.
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