SPAN 615 The Literature of Injustice: Literary Form and Economic Inequality
Why do we write and read? Is there a responsibility to the creative act? How is it reconciled (or not) with the formal and aesthetic dimensions of literature and the arts? This course analyzes the role of Hispanic literature in the theorization, perpetuation, and challenging of the economic injustice at the heart of modern inequality.
This course provides a longue durée genealogy of economic unevenness - and its critics - in the Hispanic world. By analyzing how the literature before and after Industrial Revolution reflects and shapes our concepts of justice and injustice, the students will gain the ability to understand, explain, and transform the inequalities of our present. A focus on the transformational power of the literary device will provide potent critical tools as we engage in current academic and political debates relevant to the fields of Hispanic Studies and Spanish for International Service.
Cross Listed Courses
SPAN 488 & SPAN 615