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Spring 2025 Featured Course:

Desbordando: Reading Caribbean Waters in Latinx Studies - LSP 4577  (also ENGL 4577)

As Latinx studies continues to expand beyond its nationalistic origins and re-examines its geographical bounds, nuancing the role of borders within the field becomes urgent. This course probes at the primacy of the border in Latinx studies by centering Caribbean waters. As a liquid that refuses to succumb to the violence of fragmentation and instead embodies iterations of radical wholeness, water has an innate capacity to “undo” borders, a quality epitomized by the Spanish verb “desbordar” (to overflow). Through discussion and analysis of key Latinx cultural products we will gain an appreciation for the multiple ways in which water sustains provocative contradictions across borders regarding representations of historical memory, gender and sexuality, migration, race, and religion and spirituality, among others. Instructor: Rebeca Hey-Colón. M 2 – 4:30.  4 credits. (This course fulfills humanities distribution for the LSP undergraduate minor). 

Questions, contact Professor Hey-Colón at rlh372@cornell.edu  

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