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WiSe 16/17: Frontera Fictions - --Life and Death at the US-Mexico Border

Tobias Jochum

Kommentar

Migration, maquiladoras, militarization, massacres—violence and vulnerabilities along the Northern Mexico border are troubling established border theories around emancipatory hybridization practices and postmodern cultural experimentation. Gloria Anzaldúa's image of the border as an open wound "where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds" re-emerges as an urgent call for a more site-specific, ethically engaged critique to account for not only transcultural flows and fusions but also the polarizing forces and frictions of the bifurcated border space. This course aims to challenge U.S.-centric views on the border with a truly hemispheric approach as we engage with a diverse range of literatures and lived experiences from both sides of the line. As projected fears and desires clash with local resistance and self-representation in these texts, we gain a more nuanced understanding of the real and imaginary borderlands as multiple and mutable, constructed through constant (re)negotiations of place, class, gender, sexuality, and race. Primary readings will include selections by Chicano/a authors (Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Zeta Acosta, et al), short stories and literary nonfiction by U.S. and Mexican border writers, and novels by Roberto Bolaño, Yuri Herrera, and Don Winslow. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Mo, 24.10.2016 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Tobias Jochum