SPAN 384 - Revolutions and Indigenous Uprisings in Contemporary Latin America

Throughout the 20^th Century, Latin America was one of the epicenters of insurgent and revolutionary struggles in the world. These represented, regardless of their ideological differences, the entry of the equality principle in national-spaces where large segments of the population-Indians, minorities and even women-had been, for all practical purposes, systematically excluded. By focusing on the cultural production (novels, films, essays, etc.) related to several revolutionary constellations-the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions, the Guatemalan guerrillas, the Mexican Zapatistas, and the Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Bolivia at the turn of the century, for instance-along with critical, political and decolonial theory, this course aims to explore and analyze the languages of insurgency and counterinsurgency, the figure of the revolutionary and the guerrilla fighter as political subjectivities, and the relation between Indigenous Peoples and the state.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): For Spanish credit: SPAN 321 or equivalent
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Cross-listing(s): LIT 397
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).