SPAN 4755 - [Inventing Women]

(SBA-AS, SCD-AS)

Fall. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: fluency in Spanish.

P. Keller.

An advanced seminar for Spanish majors that examines literary and cinematic works. In this course we will study modern narratives centered on the theme of fabricating, sculpting, or “making over” women. Broader themes and topics of exploration will include the uncanny, the doppelganger effect, control, trauma, amnesia, memory, illness, the male gaze and scopophilic desire.