Schedule of Readings and Assignments

UNIT ONE: Setting the Stage

 

31-ene            Brown, “States and Subjects” (Moodle)

                    McClintock, No Longer in a Future Heaven” (Moodle)

                    Richard, “Feminismo, experiencia, y representación” (Moodle)  

 

2-feb                Minh Ha, “Not You/Like You” (Moodle)

                    Masiello, “Between Civilization and Barbarism” (Moodle)

                    Montaldo, “Mujeres: ocio y negocio” (Moodle)

                    

7-feb                Bemberg, Camila

 

9-feb                Bemberg, Camila

 

14-feb            Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés (Moodle)

 

16-feb            Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés

                        Méndez Rodenas, “Incesto e identidad”

                        Pratt, “Eros and Abolition” (Moodle)

 

21-feb            Gamboa, Santa

 

23-feb            Gamboa, Santa

UNIT FOUR: Gender, Alterity, and Modernity

4-apr                Darío, Azul

 

6-apr                Darío, Azul

                        González Echevarría, “The Master of Modernism

                        Rubén Darío: viaje de un cosmopolita extremo

 

11-apr            Casas de fuego

                        Masiello, “Science and Sentimentality”

 

13-apr            Felski, “Modernity and Feminism” (Moodle)

 

18-apr            Ramos, “Decorating the City”

 

20-apr            Martí, “Nuestra América,” “Prólogo, El poema de Niágara

 

25-apr            Martí, Ismaelillo (Moodle)

28-feb            Gorriti, “La quena” (Sueños y realidades, vol. 1, Hathi Trust)

 

2-mar                Palma, “La camisa de Margarita,” “Amor de madre,”

                        “Los incas ajedrecistas

 

7-mar                Matto de Turner, Aves sin nido

 

14-mar            Hostos, La peregrinación de Bayoán, selección (Moodle)

                    Pratt, “Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe” (Moodle)

 

16-mar            Trigo, “Weaning the Virile Subject” (Moodle)

                    Ahmed, “The Orient and Other Others” (Moodle)

                    Puar, “Homonationalism and Biopolitics”  

 

 

                                        SPRING BREAK

 

 

28-mar            Rose, “Feminine Sexuality” (Moodle)

                    Sedgwick, “Toward the Gothic

 

30-mar            Garrett, “Introduction” Gothic Reflections (Moodle)

 

 

17-ene            Introducción al curso

 

19-ene            Echevarría, “El matadero

                        Haberly, “Male Anxiety and Sacrificial Masculinity” (Moodle)

 

24-ene            Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo

 

26-ene            Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo

                        Alonso, “Strange Fruit”

                        Molloy, “From Serf to Self” (Moodle)

UNIT TWO:  Gender, Alterity, and Nation

UNIT THREE: Gender Trouble

Important Dates

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