LITR 017FE. First Year Seminar: SPACE/PLACE/BODY: Remapping Inter-American Geographies

(Cross-listed as FREN 017E )
Michel de Certeau exclaims "what the map cuts up, the story cuts across". We will "remap" the boundaries of the circum-Caribbean through literature, visual art, film, and performance. Equally, we will reconfigure bodies within Inter-American space through the theme of creolization where bodies possess an openness to affect and be affected by others creating a "non-place" that eschews binaries and positionalities. Lastly, we will expand our concept of the "archive" to include magico-spiritual practices including Haitian Vodou, New Orleans Voodoo, conjure/hoodoo, Obeah, Myal, Santería, and Candomblé by considering a diverse range of "artists" including Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alexis De Veaux, Edwidge Danticat, Natasha Trethewey, Jamaica Kincaid, Olympia Vernon, Erna Brodber, Kerry Young, Marta Morena Vega, Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford and Wifredo Lam.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2024. Smith.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation  
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures


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