Cultures of Spanish-Speaking Countries Ii

Latin America: a "continent" to be re-discovered
The aim of the course is to present the American continent in its cultural complexity, limiting itself to the linguistic area in which the Spanish language predominates, i.e. the so-called Hispanoamerica.
After a linguistic, geohistorical and ethnocultural introduction, the three categories of presence, conjunctions and absence will be reviewed. They correspond:
1) To the indigenous, to the native, who was there before the conquest and who has painstakingly and painfully redesigned their mestizo identity over the centuries.
2) To the deported and "detribalized" African slave, who is also the protagonist of a process of identity redefinition and forcibly mestizo.
3) To those who have contributed to the "whitening" of the Hispano-American nations, which in the aftermath of their definition following Independence and in particular at the end of the 20th century, have experienced the wounds of dictatorial regimes which have given rise to new diasporas, exiles, desaparaciones.