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  [### A Rhetoric of Particularlism (not currently offered)

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 Some texts resist “competent” readers with barriers that more reading will not overcome. Anglo as well as Latin Americans (Morrison, Menchú, Garcilaso, Rodriguez, Poniatowska, among others) use various strategies to defend difference, as a kind of strategic essentialism, and... 

 

   [### Tobacco and Sugar (not currently offered)

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 Explores esthetic and historical experiments in farming throughout the Spanish Carribbean, using “The Cuban Counterpoint Between Tobacco and Sugar” (1940) by Fernando Ortiz as a guide. As we will see, different crops produced varied political and cultural responses. Along... 

 

   [### Aesthetics from the Margins

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~sp272) 

 

 A reconsideration of standard authors, including Aristotle, Vico, Kant, Schiller, Shklovsky, and Barthes through engagements with Latin American interpreters and practitioners of literary arts, such as Paz, Borges, Rama, Carpentier, Lezama, and Cortázar among others. 

 

   [### Latino Cultures (with David L. Carrasco and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco)

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~sp194) 

 

 Hispanics in the United States show that double consciousness is not only a burden, but can be a blessing too. Hybrid identities develop irony about simple belonging. What is particular and what shared by other “minorities” about Latino writing, education, music, visual arts... 

 

   [### Bilingual Arts

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esp165) 

 

 Bilingual practices are everywhere, though we are only beginning to address them in academic disciplines. We will explore the aesthetic dimensions of bilingualism, and some effects in related areas, including politics, language philosophy, and psychology. How do bilingual... 

 

   [### Bilingual Arts

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esp165) 

 

 Bilingual practices are everywhere, though we are only beginning to address them in academic disciplines. We will explore the aesthetic dimensions of bilingualism, and some effects in related areas, including politics, language philosophy, and psychology. How do bilingual... 

 

   [### Foundational Fiction and Film

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~sp143) 

 

 As moderns, we may assume that national identity is as natural as gender identity. This course explores the analogy between nation and sexuality through the examination of selected “national romances,” and theoretical speculations by Benedict Anderson, Foucault, Lukács, de...