32216
Advanced seminar
SoSe 22: Frontera Fictions: Literature and the US-Mexico Borders
Tobias Alexander Jochum
Comments
This course will provide an overview of writing from and about the U.S.-Mexico border, considered in light of the region's transnational history of (neo)colonial subjugation and extraction, militarization and migration, and political resistance. Adopting a hemispheric approach, we will engage with a range of literatures and cultural productions from both sides of the line in order to gain a nuanced understanding of the real and imagined border as multiple and mutable, immersed in a continuous process of reinvention through (re)negotiations of space, class, gender, sexuality, and race. Our primary readings include pioneering works by Chicanx authors (Oscar Zeta Acosta, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros), a selection of short stories by canonical Mexican authors and contemporary border writers (Juan Rulfo, Rosario Sanmiguel, Benjamin Alire Sáenz), as well as celebrated recent novels by Roberto Bolaño, Yuri Herrera, and Valeria Luiselli. The narrative works will be supplemented with journalistic and academic interventions by, among others, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto, Oscar Martínez, Cristina Rivera Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Sayak Valencia, Rossana Reguillo, Dawn Paley, and Harsha Walia, as we grapple with the ethical demands for representation and explore the complex ways in which the border speaks to our contemporary moment of global crisis. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2022-04-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-04-26 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-05-03 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-05-10 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-05-17 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-05-24 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-05-31 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-06-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-06-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-06-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-06-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-07-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-07-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2022-07-19 10:00 - 12:00