SPN 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Afro Women and Religious Exemplarity in Spanish and Latin American Colonial Literature

4 credits (Fall Term 1)

This course will examine a group often invisible in the Spanish-speaking colonial transatlantic world, that of Afro-descendants. A particular attention will be given to Afro-Spanish and Afro-Latin American sisters and the spiritual biographies written about them that sought to reconcile the negative conception of blackness and womanhood with those of religious exemplarity and sainthood. The course will conclude with an examination on how those texts have remained relevant in the current digital world.

Prerequisite: SPN 311, SPN 312, SPN 314, SPN 315, or SPN 317.
Instructor: Benoist