The course explores forms of domesticity, the politics of domestic labour, stories of dwelling, and figures of the house in Latin American culture. We will explore how the household has been portrayed in Latin American culture as a contested node in a larger network of social, political, cultural, and physical interactions. Challenging its usual association with familiarity and the family, the home will be approached as a multi-layered and multi-species place that defies conceptions of the proper. Concepts such as biopolitics, necropolitics, social reproduction, and more-than-human relations will guide our discussions of selected films and literary texts. Some of the topics we will examine are the home as an allegorical figure for the nation in nineteenth-century literature; representations of domestic labour and the legacies of slavery; house and social utopia in modernist architecture; queer homes and multi-species households in literature and film; notions of possession and dispossession and their relationships to writing and film; occupations, experiments in communal living, and the homeless workers movement; and images from quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.