SPA 343 INDIG NEW WORLD RESISTANCE

Pre-Hispanic literature engages a worldview of myth, nature, war, religion, empire, and spirituality. Spanish-American literature begins with the writings of explorers, soldiers, and missionaries dedicated to the conquest of the New World and its natural resources including the oral histories and pictorial representations of native populations. Students will explore competing worldviews of race, gender, environment, religion, and language in poetry, histories, diaries, novels, and moral treatises through the polemical lens of Hispanism. Students will analyze the intersectionality of race, social class, ethnicity, history, and gender of the Indigenous peoples in original writing projects, journals, and presentations.