Class Id: 9980
Days: MW
Start Time: 03:00 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: EPYNE
Room: 235
Course Id: 4422
Departments and Numbers: AAS 363, LAS 356, SPA 352
Area: LA
Title: Topics in the Politics of Writing and Difference: Cuban Literature of Slavery
Description: A course on the relationship between Cuban literature and slavery. Explicitly "Cuban" literature emerged from the literary salon of Domingo del Monte, a 19th century reformist with ties to British abolitionism, and early works focused on the island's massive slave industry. We will read several anti-slavery novels, emphasizing ties to transatlantic Romanticism and sentimental literature, and generic conventions more generally. Also: the only known Spanish-language slave autobiography; an oral history from an ex-slave; the diary of a bounty-hunter; psychoanalysis, and modern Cuban representations of slavery, including films.
Prerequisites: One 200-level SPA course on literature or culture or instructor's permission.
Professors: Rachel L. Price
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