SPAN 207 - Secret Lives: Nuns, Convents, Missions, and Saints in Colonial Spanish America
Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course revisits the history, literature, and culture of colonial Latin America
through the eyes of the Catholic Church and the clergy. Nuns and friars, convents
and missions played a vital part in the cultural, social and economic conquest
of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Equally, they shaped the spiritual
lives, rites and religious practices of their respective societies. The course
adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on gender studies and cultural studies;
sources will encompass architecture, daily life, clothing, portraits, public and
private letters, as well as canonical literary genres.
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