HSPST-331/431 Culture, Disease, and Political Struggle in the Hispanic World
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?
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Credits
1
Prerequisite
Three courses in HSPST or SPAIN at the 200 level or above, or consent of instructor.
Notes
Taught in Spanish.