Prof. Lázaro LimaBryn Mawr College
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course engages the current vanguard of U.S. Latino, Latin American, and Anglo-American debates about state formation in the construction of citizenship from the perspective of transgender and queer studies. We will explore recent theoretical and cultural works that challenge normative understandings of gender, sexuality, ethnic identity, nationalism, state-formation, and the body in order to instantiate a politics of "Queer futurity" free of normative ideations of citizenship and civic belonging. In the process, the course will analyze the limits of cultural and theoretical interface between U.S. Latino, Latin American, and Anglo-American cultural theory. Prerequisites: ENGL B250, SPAN 202 or equivalent. Course taught in English. Enrollment limited to 20. Counts toward Gender & Sexuality concentration. Counts toward Hispanic Studies Concentration.
