SPN 350 - Innocence Interrupted:Representation of Children and Teenagers in Latin America

This course examines the role of children and teenagers as protagonists, victims and witnesses in Latin American literature, film, and culture during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore how these young subjects are used to mediate issues of identity, culture, race, class, gender, family structure and national politics. Some of the questions we will address are: Is childhood really an age of innocence and purity? How does the representation of children and adolescents in Latin American literary, cultural and cinematographic productions contribute to denouncing a complexity of social, gender and political issues in a more effective way? How do children and adolescents act as voices of resistance for the injustices, violence and inequalities in Latin American societies? Prereq(s): SPN 301 or instructor consent.