SPAN 1422 - MEXICAN LITERATURE, ARTS, AND CULTURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews the last hundred years of Mexican cultural history, from the 1910 Revolution to the present. Taking into consideration the meta concepts that define national culture:" the cosmic race","the post-Mexican condition" and "the labyrinth of solitude", and under the lens of indigenous, nationalist, feminist and postmodernist theories, this course examines several milestones of national culture. This analysis focus on the cultural programs of the post-revolutionary period (muralism), the rise of the Mexican cultural industry (radio, cinema, comics, telenovela), the transcendental moments of conflict (the 1968 Olympic Games, the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement and the rebellion of the Zapatistas in 1994) and transnational tendencies (the pachuco, the narcoculture). The objective of the course is not, however, to define Mexican national culture, but to analyze, problematize and unsettle the ideological conflicts and cultural struggles that contextualize the production and diffusion of the great works of the last century through critical approaches guided by such concepts as those of ideology, race, gender, nationalism, the border, and post-nationalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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