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Nation and Gender in Latin American Visual Culture

April 8, 2014

Nation and Gender in Latin American Visual Culture

Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have insisted upon the critical role that gendered ideologies play in the formation of nationalist discourses. Given its history of colonialism, imperialism, and hybridity, Latin America has emerged as a rich and complicated breeding ground for nationalist rhetorics deeply steeped in gendered constructs. While these tropes have been forged through various social and political means in Latin America, visual cultural production in its many forms has been a powerful vehicle through which national imaginaries are promoted, disseminated and inscribed upon the social psyche. This graduate seminar is thus dedicated to the perilous history of gender, nation and visual culture in Latin America. 

Fall 2014
Professor Guisela Latorre
Thursdays 2:15 - 5 p.m. 
286A University Hall