Prerequisite: SPAN graduate student or permission of instructor.

This seminar combines readings of different theories of individual and collective subjectivities with relevant literary texts, such as the essays about indigenism by Luis Villoro and the indigenist novels of Rosario Castellanos. Other writers and thinkers we will study include Jose Marti, Natalia Toledo, Carlos Monsivais, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Antonio Cornejo Polar.