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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
Course Description:
Islands are tokens of (colonial) desire. This course aims to explore the relationship between cultural production, geography, and the environment to understand the impact of Spanish imperialism in different islands and archipelagos-African, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific. Using a comparative and intercultural approach that overlaps Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial, and Island Studies, we will examine and confront historic, modern, and contemporary literary texts, films, critical articles, contemporary art interventions, and maps, to think about neo-colonial legacies, displacement, sea-level rising, transoceanic imaginaries, indigenous ecopoetics, and the role of artists and writers as "artivists." Among others, authors may include C. Columbus, Lezama Lima, Unamuno, María Zambrano, Rita Indiana, Mayra Montero, E.J. Mota, and Ávila Laurel. |