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Language & Power in the Americas

Course #: LATAM 360, Class #: 6994, Section #: 01

Description

This course examines the nature of language power in the construction and history of cultures, nations, and identities in the Americas. The relationships among indigenous languages and colonizing languages Spanish, Portuguese, and English, and their role in the cultural self-fashioning and formation of political subjects will be studies through themes including contact, conflict, conquest, resistance, translation, and transculturation.

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