A lecture "Don Quixote, Batman and El Chapulín Colorado"will be presented by Carlos Aguasaco (Bogotá, 1975), assistant professor of Latin American Cultural Studies & Spanish at the City College of The City University of New York Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is set for Wednesday, September 25, from 6- 8 p.m. inCook-DeWitt Center, Allendale Campus.
Aguasaco will discuss such topics as merit, work, private property
and gender in Latin America - with a contrastive perspective amidst
the analysis. This lecture also brings to light the conceptual
connections between the literature of the so called Spanish Golden
Age, the advent of modernity and the development of national
identities in Mexico and the United States.
El Chapulín Colorado (The Red Grasshopper) is Mexico´s prime
superhero. This TV character was developed, in the 1970s, as both a
critique/parody of his main stream American counterparts (Batman,
Superman, etc.) and as the Mexican/Latin American contribution to the
League of Justice.
Sponsored by GVSU Latin American Studies, Brooks College of
Interdisciplinary Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures. For
more information contact Zulema Moret, Latin American Studies
coordinator, at 616-331-2286, or [email protected].
