Contemporary Issues of the Hispanic World: Eco-Fictions from Latin American Women Writers (SPAN 6020)

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SPAN 6020.601 Online synchronous W 6:00-9:00 CRN 35504

Contemporary Issues of the Hispanic World: Eco-Fictions from Latin American Women Writers

This course examines environmental problems (global warming, industrial farming practices, extractionism, toxic wastes, etc.) as cultural problems resulting from the nexus of the technoscientific world view and globalized neoliberal capitalism. In it, we will analyze Latin American climate and ecological fictions by contemporary women authors from an ecocritical, ecofeminist perspective.

These are some of the writers whose work will be studied:

  • Mariana Enríquez, Argentina
  • Liliana Colanzi, Bolivia
  • Rita Indiana, Dominican Republic
  • Carmen Naranjo, Costa Rica
  • Solange Rodriguez Pappe, Ecuador
  • Iliana Vargas, Mexico
  • Fernanda Trías, Uruguay
  • Samanta Schweblin, Argentina
  • Valeri Correa Fiz, Argentina/España

 

Dr. Dale Knickerbocker

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

East Carolina University

For more information: knickerbockerd@ecu.edu