{"id":18266,"date":"2011-11-18T04:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18266"},"modified":"2011-11-18T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:23:10","slug":"cls-413-comparative-studies-in-theme-generation-degeneration-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18266","title":{"rendered":"CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwestern University
\nWinter 2012<\/p>\n

C\u00e9sar Braga-Pinto<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies<\/p>\n

In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation<\/a> and degeneration impacted this three-part pattern:<\/p>\n

(1) the “family romance” in Latin America (and elsewhere); (2) the \u00a0so-called generative crisis in the turn of the century; (3) the homosocial, “horizontal” forms of association or affiliation that were evoked to compensate the crisis in the generative model. We will also consider the meanings of the term “generation” as a form of “affiliation” in multi-racial societies such as Brazil.<\/p>\n

Although we will focus primarily on Brazilian fiction, the approach will be comparative (hemispheric and\/or transatlantic), and final papers may focus on U.S., Latin American, European, African or other post-colonial literatures (primarily from the period 1850’s-1930’s).<\/p>\n

Class Materials:<\/p>\n