HSPST-331/431 Culture, Disease, and Political Struggle in Latin America

This course explores disease as a social construct, considering how it intersects with language, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and disability. We examine disease as a zone where subjectivities are created and where anomalies arise that challenge and facilitate political agency. We consider environmental issues and health care. Through interviews, short fiction, photography, and film from the mid-1980s to today, we ask: How do representations of HIV-AIDS reimagine family and kinship? How do illnesses articulate state policies? How do pandemics herald new kinds of (racial) citizenships?

Prerequisite

Two 200-level courses in Hispanic studies above 200 or 201, or consent of instructor.

Offered

Spring