AFAS Speaker Series: Eating Slavery: Queer Consumptions of Blackness in the Telenovela Xica da Silva
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 4 PM to 5:30 PM
About this Event
The Brazilian telenovela, or soap opera, Xica da Silva aired from 1996 to 1997 and was syndicated in over 20 other countries around Latin America and the world. Focusing on Xica da Silva and its cultural afterlives, Dr. Mundell will discuss the everyday consumption of visual culture depicting slavery and its sexual brutalities in Brazil and Latin America.