Our texts will include autobiographies, travel accounts, oral performances, visual representations, and testimonial essays. Students will write a major paper which discusses the work of a Latin American woman, who in some sense works against the grain to craft her self-representation. This paper will situate her text within its particular historical and cultural context. Deborah Levenson-Estrada is Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College. Angela Maria Perez-Mejia is Assistant Professor in the Romance and Comparative Literature Department at Brandeis University specializing in colonial Latin American literature.
Transfer credit is available at most institutions.