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Course Description

Summary

Although Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) is recognized as one of Mexico’s most important writers, she did not live to see the impact of her contributions to the feminist revolution of the latter half of the twentieth century, participate in the first Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer that took place in 1975 in Mexico City, or in the recent Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que Luchan organized by the Zapatista women in Chiapas, Mexico, where she spent her early years, and where her Indigenista works take place. Castellanos died in Tel Aviv in 1974 while serving as Mexican ambassador to Israel. She died at the height of her career shortly after being recognized as one of the most important writers of her generation. Her poems, plays, novels, essays, and editorials follow the twin threads of oppression of indigenous people, particularly women, and of Mexican women. In this course we will study the works of Rosario Castellanos for their poignancy and exquisite lyricism, and as an avenue for interrogating gender, race, class, aesthetics, power, and myths of the nation. Explicit support for student’s linguistic development will be integrated and will depend on the needs of the class. Low-intermediate level. In Spanish. Corequisites: attendance at two Language Series events.