CORE 324 - Crossing Borders:The Transculturalization of the Self in Bombal,Kahlo,and Alegría

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Colgate University

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L. Rojas The 20th century witnessed a spiraling in the production, publication, appreciation, and criticism of Latin American women's works. Understanding those works demands that readers and critics move across borders: national borders, genre borders, linguistic borders, and media borders. The course focuses on three paradigmatic examples: María Luisa Bombal, Claribel Alegría, and Frida Kahlo. Specifically, the course examines how Bombal and Kahlo appropriated surrealism, transformed it, and shap ed surreali ty into an experience of globalization radically different from technological, economic, or political globalizations. Through Alegría's poetry, the course considers a new level of engagement with society in literature. In the process, students analyze and evaluate the very methodology that all their core courses employ, that is, interdisciplinary analys

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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