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COURSE TITLE:EMBODIMENT, FEMINISM, AND CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES
TRANSLATION:EMBODIMENT, FEMINISMO Y ESTUDIOS CRITICOS INDIGENAS.
COURSE CODE:LET211I
CREDIT HOURS:10
WEEKLY CLASS PERIODS:02
TYPE OF COURSE:ELECTIVE
COURSE FORMAT:LECTURE
GRADING SYSTEM:STANDARD
KEYWORDS:BODY,FEMINISM,INDIGENEITY
KEYWORDS TRANSLATION:CUERPO,FEMINISMO,INDIGENEIDAD
COURSE LEVEL:UNDERGRADUATE


I.COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will consider hegemonic understandings of the body as essentially linked to histories of colonialism and power. They will investigate frameworks about the body proposed by minoritized groups, developed out of collective struggle and political movements, found in feminism and critical indigenous studies. Students will recognize the essential differences between these frameworks as well as how they intermingle and intersect. The methodology includes lectures as well as individual and group exercises for critical reading and reflection. Students will be assessed on their ability to analyze, interpret and appraise the material as well as their ability to juxtapose and apply the concepts to their own contexts.


II.LEARNING OUTCOMES

1.Explain when, why and how the notion of "embodiment" became a concept for thinking about human existence.

2.Analyze how and why scholars of material feminism return to an emphasis on the body, during the second wave of feminism.

3.Appraise indigenous scholars? understanding of bodies by analyzing their presence in indigenous epistemologies (human and non-human) found within theoretical and literary texts.

4.Interpret a selection of theoretical, philosophical, and literary texts through multiple understandings of embodiment.


III.CONTENT

1.What and where is my body? Western notions of embodiment and some of our frames of reference today.
1.1.Aristotle and Descartes
1.2.Foucault and Biopolitics
1.3.Braidotti and Posthumanism

2.Why and how bodies matter: Material feminism and embodiment
2.1.Second wave of feminism
2.2.Third wave of feminism
2.3.Intersectionality

3.Bodies in relationship to other bodies: Critical indigenous studies and embodiment
3.1.Land-body renderings
3.2.Relationality and eroticism
3.3.Earth-grieving


IV.METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES

-Small group discussion.

-Peer review workshops.

-Writing workshops and journals.

-Lectures.

-Flipped classroom.

-Presentations.

-Close reading and textual analysis.


V.ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

-Attendance and participation: 10%

-Writing workshops and journals: 30%

-Group presentation: 10%

-Essays: 50%


VI.BIBLIOGRAPHY

Minimum

Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman(Eds.). Material Feminisms. Indiana University Press,2008.

Anzaldua, Gloria and Moraga, Cherrie(Eds.). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Suny Press,2015.

Braidotti, Rosi. "The concept of human has always been associated with relations of power". https://youtu.be/mb2_a-UX1OE

Cixous, Helene."The Laugh of the Medusa." The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent Letich and William Cain. New York, Longman,1998.2039-2056.

Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem. Graywolf Press, 2020.

Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London, Bloomsbury, 2017.

Renee, Sonya. The Body is not an Apology. The Power of Radical Self-Love. Oakland, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2018.

Risling Baldy, Cutcha. We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Indigenous Confluences). University of Washington Press, 2018.

Tallbear, Kim; Willey, Angela. "Introduction: Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature", in Imaginations,2019, vol.10, n.?1, pp.5?15.

Weller, Francis. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. North Atlantic Books,2015.


Complementary

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.

Canada, Milkweed Editions,2013

Machado, Carmen Maria. Her Body and Other Parties. Graywolf Press,2017.

McBride, Hillary. The Wisdom of your Body. Brazos Press,2021.

Mortimer, Catriona; Erickson, Bruce. Queer Ecologies, Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Indiana, Indiana UP,2010.

Nelson, Melissa K."Getting Dirty. The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures", in Barker, Joanne(ed.), Critically Sovereign. Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Durham, Duke University Press Books, pp.229-260.

Spivak, Gayatri. "Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value", In Other Worlds. Routledge, 2006.


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FACULTAD DE LETRAS / MAYO 2024