ILAC 114N:
Lyric Poetry
Preference to freshmen. For students who have successfully completed two years of college Spanish. Elements and expressive devices of lyric poetry: multidimensional language, denotation, connotation, image, metaphor, symbol, allegory, paradox, irony, meaning, idea, rhythm, and meter. Poets of Spain and Latin America of the late 19th and early 20th century including G. A. Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral. In English and Spanish.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ILAC 117N:
Film, Nation, Latinidad (CHICANST 117N, CSRE 117N)
Examination of films from Spain, Mexico, and Latina/o USA that expand, trouble, contest, parody, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Sayles, Maria Novaro, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gregory Nava.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
ILAC 119:
Film Noir and the contemporary Iberian Novel
The influence of classic American film noir (Hitchcock, Lang, Huston, Welles etc.) on works by some of Iberia's most successful contemporary novelists including Antonio Muñoz Molina, Juan Marsé, Rosa Montero, José Cardoso Pires and Albert Sánchez Piñol. Supplementary works include reading from the Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro as well as works by Emmanuel Levinas, Dominique LaCapra, Carl Jung, Kenneth Burns and others. Readings in Spanish and English.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 120:
Introduction to Literary and Scholarly Research
Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. How to write a research proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; bibliographical essays; rhetorical strategies; and common logical fallacies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 130:
Cultural Perspectives in Iberia
The historical dynamics, linguistic plurality, and social complexity of the Iberian world. Topics include: empire, independence Civil war; republicanism; the crisis at the end of the century: the year 98; the civil war; dictatorships, Franco, and Salazar. Major figures include Larra, Esproceda, Béquer, Rosalía de Castro, Verdaguer, Galdós, Maragall, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and Lorca.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ILAC 131:
Cultural Perspectives in the Luso-Hispanic Americas
Major theoretical debates about the construction of Latin American identities, from the 19th century to the present. Readings by writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, including Rodo, Retamar, O'Gorman, Vasconcelos, Henríquez-Ureña, Ramos, Paz, Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Borges, and Fuentes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ILAC 136:
Modern Iberian Literatures
1800 to the present. Topics include: romanticism; realism and its variants; the turn of the century; modernism and the avant garde; the Civil War; and the second half of the 20th century. Authors may include Mariano José de Larra, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Benito Pérez Galdós, Migues de Unamuno, Pío Baroja, Joan Maragall, Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Salvador Espriu.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ILAC 141:
Culture, Politics and the Marvelous Real in Latin-American Narrative
The representation of cultural and political perspectives and changes from the twentieth to the present centuries through the artifact of short stories and a novel. Readings selections range from canonical to very recent authors from general demographic areas of Latin America. Selected works from Carpentier, Borges, Cortázar, Monterroso, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, García Márquez, Castellanos, Benítez Rojo, Ferre, Rebeyro, Gorodischer, Valencia, Bolaño, Karla Suárez will be exmined.Youtube and other sources of interviews and criticism will complement classroom activities.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 142:
Modernismo and the World Interior
At the turn of the 19th century, Rubén Darío named "reino interior" the private area of introspection and imagination favored by modernistas. A source and possibility for artistic production, this trope incarnates tensions between individual and social space, parochialism and cosmopolitanism. We will consider poetry, narrative, journals, and the visual arts. Authors may include: Delmira Agustini, Rubén Darío, Julián del Casal, Leopoldo Lugones, José Martí, Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, José Enrique Rodó, José Asunción Silva, Abraham Valdelomar. Spanish proficiency required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 157:
Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
Topics may include: lyric and epic poetry; Jewish and Muslim literatures; the development of Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese prose; the Valencian golden age; texts of the Renaissance and Baroque; the literature of imperial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ILAC 159:
Don Quijote
Focus is on a close reading of the original Spanish text of Miguel de Cervantes's prose masterpiece. The rise of the novel, the problems of authorship and signification, modes of reading, the status of Muslim and Jewish converts in early modern Spain, the rise of capitalism, masochistic desire. The course will be conducted entirely in Spanish.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 161:
Modern Latin American Literature
From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors: Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Darío, Martí, Mistral, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, Guillén,Rulfo, Ramos, Arguedas, García Márquez, Lispector, Menchú, and Bolaño.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ILAC 189A:
Honors Research
Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite: DLCL 189.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
ILAC 189B:
Honors Research
Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A, DLCL 189.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
ILAC 193:
The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
The evolution of Spain's most recognizable director from marginal, transgressive amateur cinema to polished visual style. The deliberate blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture; his use of metafilmic allusions and attention to sexuality, extreme experiences, and marginal characters. From his early work to recent award-winning films. Prerequisite: spoken Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ILAC 193Q:
Spaces and Voices of Brazil through Film (PORTLANG 193Q)
The manners in which a country is perceived and defines itself is a result of many complex forces, and involves the reproduction of social relations and complex social constructions both on the part of those who live there and those who see it from a distance. The perceptions of what Brazil is and what defines the country has changed throughout times, but has conserved some clear pervasive defining traits. This course is an introduction to the history, culture, politics and artistic production of Brazil as seen through feature films, documentaries and some complementary readings. Movies include, among others, Banana is my Business, Black Orpheus, Olga, They Don't Use Black-Tie, City of God, Central Station, Gaijin, and Four Days in September-among others. In English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ILAC 194E:
Black Brazil (ILAC 253E)
This course focuses on Afro-Brazilian culture through a variety of media that include: fictional texts (short-stories, poems and novels), socio-historical and anthropological essays, music, films and sports dealing with racial issues in Brazilian society through a historical overview and a contemporary perspective. Authors (Machado de Assis, Joaquim Nabuco, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, Carolina de Jesus, Gilberto Freyre, Roberto DaMatta, Antonio Risério, Luis Felipe D¿Alencastro); Music (Samba, Choro, MPB); Sports (Soccer, Capoeira); Religion (Candomblé, Umbanda); Films (Orfeu Negro, Barravento, Ó Pai Ó).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 199:
Individual Work
Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 12 units total)
ILAC 204:
Spanish Nationalist Discourses from Franco to Zapatero: What does 'plural Spain' mean? (HISTORY 272A)
Spanish nationalism and 'patriotic affirmation' discourses existing in contemporary Spain. Since the end of Francoism, Spanish nationalism has existed in a de-articulated and diffuse way, rather as a reaction against the challenge of stateless nationalisms than as a substantive doctrine. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a recovery of Spanish nationalist discourse, often labeled as 'Constitutional patriotism', whose main point is the insistence on History as the founding basis for the legitimation of the present Spanish polity, as well as the vindication of the 1978 Constitution as the end-point of decentralization.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 211:
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
The major works of Neruda, particularly Residencia en la Tierra I and II, Tercera Residencia, and Canto General. Neruda within a tradition of European lyric poetry from William Blake to García Lorca and Alberti; how this tradition was transformed in Neruda's poetry by the historical conditions of Chilean and Latin American societies and the Spanish Civil War.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 213:
Spanish Cinema in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Spanish Cinema in the Second Half of the 20th Century-Cinema's shaping of the national imaginary and its articulation of collective memories suppressed during the Franco dictatorship. Directors include Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar, Amenábar, and Medem.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 214:
Crypto-Muslim Culture in Early Modern Spain (RELIGST 220B)
What is known about the secret religious practice and culture of the Moriscos, Spain's large minority community of Muslim converts to Christianity (1500-1609)? What role did their handwritten literature (largely Islamic texts written in Castilian but copied out in Arabic script) play in the formation and maintenance of their culture? What can these Crypto-Muslim communities teach us regarding the place of Muslim culture in Western Europe today? The course will be taught in English; knowledge of Spanish and/or Arabic script is useful but not necessary.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 225E:
Theater, Society, and Politics in 20th-Century Spain
Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Federico García Lorca. The avant garde nature of their major plays and their engagement with social and political issues of the times including feudalism, the emerging liberal state, women's protest, class struggle, and civil war. Symbolism, expressionism, and realism.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 228:
Secularism: The Boundaries of Religion in Early and Post-Modernity
an examination of how two analytical categories, secularism and religion, have shaped each other over time. We will trace the contemporary legacy of early modern forms of scholarship, government, and community by considering the history and divergent uses of concepts such as tolerance, natural law, multiculturalism, and the freedom of religion Texts by Asad, Augustine, Erasmus, Fallers Sullivan, Las Casas, Locke, Said, Spinoza, C. Taylor, Vitoria, and others.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 229:
The work of Luis Martín Santos in Mid-Twentieth Century Spain (COMPLIT 218)
First published in 1962, "Tiempo de Silencio" is the only book that the young psychiatrist Luis Martin Santos finished during his lifetime, and, although largely overlooked (even in Spain) until the present day, one of the great European novels of the 20th century. It brings to a complex convergence the evocation of Spain's decadent and run-down post-Civil War society with high-modernist literary procedures and (an implicit parody of) phenomenological analysis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 232:
Culture and Power
An examination of the relationship between culture and power, relying mostly on how that relationship is reflected in the various forms of cultural creation: paintings, sculptures, photographs, graffiti, stories, theories. Focusing on artists from Catalonia (Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Tàpies, Barceló) and Spain (Velazquez, Goya) and will move on to contemporary artists and thinkers from different cultures.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 240E:
Borges and Philosophy
Analysis of the Argentine author's literary renditions of philosophical ideas. Topics may include: time, free will, infinitude, authorship and self, nominalism vs. realism, empiricism vs. idealism, skepticism, peripheral modernities, postmodernism, and Eastern thought. Close reading of short stories, poems, and essays from Labyrinths paired with selections by authors such as Augustine, Berkeley, James, and Lao Tzu. The course will be conducted in English; Spanish originals will be available. Satisfies the capstone seminar requirement for the major in Philosophy and Literature.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ILAC 241:
Fiction Workshop in Spanish
Creative writing workshop in Spanish. Latin American and Iberian short stories approached through the theory and craft of this genre. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on the formal elements of fiction (characterization, plot, point of view, imagery, dialogue, theme, and diction). Students will develop an original short story over the course of the quarter. No previous experience with creative writing is required. Authors: Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez, Bolaño, Piglia, Ayala, Clarín, and others. This course is offered every other year.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
ILAC 244:
Andalusian Iberias
The relationship among the Spanish, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew literatures and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula has been hotly contested. This class is an introduction to these debates about the development of literary genre, the transmission of philosophical knowledge, and the history of religious polemic in late medieval and early modern Iberia. We will study the conventions structuring the different ecumenical, linguistic, and political communities as well as the multiplicity of Andalusian Iberias produced by their interaction.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 253E:
Black Brazil (ILAC 194E)
This course focuses on Afro-Brazilian culture through a variety of media that include: fictional texts (short-stories, poems and novels), socio-historical and anthropological essays, music, films and sports dealing with racial issues in Brazilian society through a historical overview and a contemporary perspective. Authors (Machado de Assis, Joaquim Nabuco, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, Carolina de Jesus, Gilberto Freyre, Roberto DaMatta, Antonio Risério, Luis Felipe D¿Alencastro); Music (Samba, Choro, MPB); Sports (Soccer, Capoeira); Religion (Candomblé, Umbanda); Films (Orfeu Negro, Barravento, Ó Pai Ó).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 256:
Drug Wars: Narco Representations in Media and Literature
Representations of Latin American (and Chicano) Narcos and Druglords in film, telenovelas, corridos, essays and novels and how these representations affect governmental policies. Films: Tropical Snow by Ciro Durán; The Camarena Story by Brian Gibson; Escobar, The King of Cokaine by Steven Dupler; True Story of Killing Pablo by David Keane; Kingpin by David Mills; El rey by José Antonio Dorado; Sumas y restas by Víctor Gaviria; María llena eres de gracia by Joshua Marston. Books: La reina del sur by Pérez-Reverte; Killing Pablo by Bowden; Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America by O. Hugo Benavides.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 260:
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 in Cinema
Our visual knowledge of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 originates in the Casasola photo archive, but most notably in the films that portrayed important leaders of the revolution such as Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata. This course will study the political and social changing images of those "heroes" or "bandits" in the light of historical ideologies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 263:
Visions of the Andes (ILAC 363)
What visions and images of the Andes circulate in contemporary Latin American literature? How are they constructed? How is their value accrued? An exploration of the visual economy of the Andes in representative literary texts of the 20th century, vis-à-vis critical discourses about Andean culture. Topics: visual culture and identity, iconography and the word/image tension, nature vs. culture, debates on utopia, indigenismo, mestizaje, and hibridez. Authors may include: Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Martín Chambi, José Carlos Mariátegui, César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raúl Salmón, Aurelio Arturo. Spanish proficiency required.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ILAC 265:
Museums and Novels in Argentina
In this course we examine the changing relationship between history, memory, collection, production and consumption in a group of narrative works from 20th and 21st century Argentina. We discuss the role of the museum in the novel¿s imaginary, comparing and contrasting the experiences of reading and museum-going. Focusing on the museum in relation to the literary form will allow us to reflect on tensions between the market, the canon, and the avant-gardes as they appear in a changing cultural economy. Authors include: Fernández, Borges, Mujica Láinez, Piglia, Pauls, and Kohan.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 271:
Brazilian Presence: Landscape, Life and Literature
Brazil's literary representation of the it's diverse regional cultures and ecology through the works of Euclides da Cunha describing the Amazon in the early 1900s; the travels of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and his contact with Caduveo, Nhambiquara, Bororo and Tupi indigenous tribes; Mario de Andrade's novel, Macunaima and its ironical representation of Brazilian identity and miscegenation; Guimarães Rosa's short stories that show the imagery of the sertão and its people (the sertanejo culture); Milton Hatoum's novel, The Brothers, and its impressive portray of Manaus city in the 20th Century as an unstable world seen through the lens of Lebanese immigrants.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
ILAC 273:
Brazilian Resonances: Poems, Lyrics, Songs
Brazilian culture through poems, lyrics and sounds from the 19th to the 20th Century. Songs and Lyrics by: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Jobim, Carlinhos Brown, Paulinho da Viola, Marisa Monte, Cartola. Authors may include: Gonçalves Dias, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Cecília Meireles, Murilo Mendes, Drummond, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Hilda Hilst, Antonio Cicero, among others. In Portuguese.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 278:
Senior Seminar: Early 20th Century Iberian Poets
Major works of Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca will be examined, with special emphasis on the historical context of the first three dacades of the 20th century and their contribuitions to the development of 20th century Spanish lyric poetry.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
for credit
ILAC 278A:
Senior Seminar: Amazonia-Manhattan - Visions of El Dorado
The confrontation between two worlds: the Forest and the City in the Americas, with a special focus on the Amazon jungle and New York City, and the myth of "El Dorado". Readings by 19th and 20th century Latin American writers such as Dario, Martí, Sousândrade, and Carpentier including their intertexts with the Chronicles of Discovery and Conquest.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
ILAC 280:
Latina/o Literature (CHICANST 200, CSRE 200)
Examination of a diverse set of literary texts by Latinas/os, bringing history, politics, and cultural theory to bear in order to apprehend the significant intracultural differences amongst Latinas/os (most notably concerning im/migration). Gender and sexuality as critical lenses that reflect and refract themes such as identity, language politics, transnationalism, political turmoil, socioeconomic status, and the notion of home/land and its loss, reinvention, and/or reclamation
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
ILAC 299:
Individual Work
Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barletta, V. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Hoyos, H. (PI);
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI);
Predmore, M. (PI);
Resina, J. (PI);
Ruffinelli, J. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Santana, C. (PI);
Surwillo, L. (PI);
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ILAC 300:
Contemporary Geopolitical Thinking: A Critical Look from Catalonia, Spain, and Europe
Contemporary geopolitical thought developed by Western experts on both sides of the Atlantic, such as Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, Benjamin Barber, Edward Lutwak, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Kagan, Ignacio Ramonet, Anthony Giddens, Zaki Laidi, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Pere Vilanova, Antoni Segura, and Manuel Castells have detected key aspects of the new international order and have compared and contrasted the American and European approaches to its governance. Themes: hard vs. soft power; unilateralism vs. multilateralism, security vs. liberty, loyalty and legitimacy vs. effectiveness.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 328:
Alexander the Great in Medieval Iberian
Greek hegemon, Asian emperor, student of Aristotle, Qur'anic hero, and Mediterranean legend. In this seminar, students explore the various manifestations of Alexander the Great in Iberian literature during the medieval period. What is Alexander's place in the development of theories of empire? In the formation of (always fuzzy and shifting) distinctions between East and West (and life and death)? Readingsinclude: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Pseudo-Callisthenes, Libro de Alexandre, the Aljamiado Rrekontamiento del rrey Alixandere, Secretum secretorum, and selected Qur'anic suras.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 331:
Combat and Cultural Memory
Why do peoples go to war? What shapes the warrior¿s imaginary? What is the nature of collective violence? This course explores Western representations of violence, the myths of war and it cultural transmission, the war community, and the relation between violence and narration. Major theoretical texts on war and violence by Arendt, Schmitt, Weil, Baudrillard and others will be read in conjunction with literary texts by authors such as Jünger, Malraux, Rodoreda, Sales, Benet, and Cercas, and contrasted with representations in art, photography, and film.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 343:
García Márquez
Extensive and detailed reading of the major works and a selection of the most significant critical texts about the author. Secondary readings by Vargas Llosa, Ludmer, Moretti, and Bloom. Topics include: macondismo, magical realism, canonicity, representations of violence, and autobiography.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 357:
Juan Carlos Onetti: the Creation of Urban Narratives
Alongside with Arlt and Mallea, Juan Carlos Onetti initiates the "urban" novel in South America. This course will analyze this turning point in the history of literature, and will relate it to the urbanization and industrialization in Argentina and Uruguay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 363:
Visions of the Andes (ILAC 263)
What visions and images of the Andes circulate in contemporary Latin American literature? How are they constructed? How is their value accrued? An exploration of the visual economy of the Andes in representative literary texts of the 20th century, vis-à-vis critical discourses about Andean culture. Topics: visual culture and identity, iconography and the word/image tension, nature vs. culture, debates on utopia, indigenismo, mestizaje, and hibridez. Authors may include: Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Martín Chambi, José Carlos Mariátegui, César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raúl Salmón, Aurelio Arturo. Spanish proficiency required.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 365:
Anthropological Fictions in Latin America
An investigation of the relationship between fiction and ethnography; literary theory and anthropology, discussing the notion of 'anthropological fiction". Authors: Viveiros de Castro, Roy Wagner, Alfred Gell, W.Iser, J.Clifford, Borges, Lispector, with a special focus on Guimarães Rosa and Alejo Carpentier. In Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 380E:
Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature (CHICANST 201C, CSRE 201C)
Interrogation of the critical discourses that have configured and reconfigured the canon of Chicana/o literature over the last thirty years. Close textual readings of primary texts, mainly narrative, within the development of Chicana/o literary and cultural criticism. Construction of narrative genealogies and foundational texts. Impact of the publication of late-nineteenth or pre-movement novels and Chicana feminist/lesbian/queer critiques. Consideration of alternative paradigms such as positioning Chicana/o literature within a U.S. Latina/o literary imaginary, and the shift of critical discourse in the field of visual art from a paradigm of resistance and affirmation to one of "post" Chicano.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 389E:
Race / Sex / Gender in Cultural Representations (CHICANST 199A, CSRE 199A)
Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 399:
Individual Work
For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barletta, V. (PI);
Briceno, X. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Hoyos, H. (PI);
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI);
Predmore, M. (PI);
Resina, J. (PI);
Ruffinelli, J. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Surwillo, L. (PI);
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ILAC 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barletta, V. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Hoyos, H. (PI);
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI);
Predmore, M. (PI);
Resina, J. (PI);
Ruffinelli, J. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Surwillo, L. (PI);
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ILAC 112Q:
Latin American Cities Through Literature and Film
A study of urban issues in Latin American cities, such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima, Medellin, Quito, Mexico City, Santiago, La Paz and Sao Paulo using literary works and films, using literary works and films. Books and films by Javier Vásconez, Mario Benedetti, Sebastián Cordero, Alicia Scherson, Antonio Serrano, Gisela Kozak, Francisco Lombardi, Veronica Chen, Fernando Vallejo, Barbet Schroeder, Walter Salles, and Roman Chalbaud, Santiago Roncagliolo among others.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 126:
Contemporary Literature and Cinema of the Spanish Civil War
An exploration of memory of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath in contemporary Iberian literature and cinema. Focus will be on the examination of the most important events of 20th Century Spain through the analysis of novels, short stories, testimonial texts, documentaries, and feature films that attempt to recover the voices and memories of the victims: outcasts (guerrilla, refugees), women, and children.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 137E:
Viewing Modern Barcelona
An introduction to the salient aspects of Barcelona's history, its role in Spain's modernization and democratization as well as its tensions with the state. Emphasis on the modern period, from the tearing down of the ancient walls and the city's expansion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Olympic and post-Olympic definition of public space. Attention will be given to city planning, the architecture of Gaudí, the art work of Picasso and Dalí, popular music and literature about the city.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 158:
New Lat American Short Stories and Films (1980-2009): a Survey
A survey of the "short" form in literature and film in Latin American countries with a focus on Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil from the 80s to the present. Authors: Bellatin, Portela, Vega Serova, Parra, Paz Soldán, and others. Filmmakers: Cuaron, Gruener, Furtado, Moya, Novaro, and others.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 197:
Brazilian Culture in a Comparative Latin American Perspective
Brazilian modernization and cultural dynamism in the second half of the 20th century. Concrete poetry and its relation to the construction of Brasilia, the bossa nova movement, and tropicalism. Comparative studies in the global art context. Authors include: Haroldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Eugen Gomringer, Severo Sarduy, Octavio Paz, Ramón Xirau, Max Bense, and Charles Bernstein. Texts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 218:
Anticlericalism in the Iberian Novel of XIX
The rapid social and cultural changes in which 19th-century novelists wrote; the anti-clerical stance as marker of society's attempts to modernize. Why were monks and priests reviled by many Spanish novelists? How and why did they re-write Spanish history around these figures? What was the role of the church and religious men in modern society? Questions of individualism, property, and labor in novels by major Iberian prose realists. In Spanish.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 222:
The Problem of Two Spains: Literature and Society in 19th-Century Spain
Representative literary figures including Larra, Espronceda, Zorrilla, Rosalía de Castro, Bécquer, and Galdós. Modern lyric poetry and the modern realist novel against the background of Napoleonic invasions, the loss of overseas colonies, two Carlist civil wars, and frustrated attempts to establish the First Spanish Republic.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 247E:
Magical Realism and Globalization
Is magical realism a genre, a style, a politics, or a label for elaborate fiction from the Third World? Seminal works and their role in the 20th century. Topics include: postcolonial discourse, myth and truth, tradition versus modernity, and realism versus fantasy. Novels, plays, and short stories by García Márquez, Rushdie, and Morrison; films by Schlondorff and Begnigni; essays by Roh and Carpentier.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ILAC 250:
Latin America at the End of the Cold War
Systematic study of the cultural transformations in Latin America before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Comparisons between works that respond to the defining moments of the conflict (Neruda, Cardinal) and texts that reflect on its later, residual stage. Fiction: Sin remedio by Antonio Caballero, Literatura nazi en América by Roberto Bolaño, and Pasado Perfecto by Leonardo Padura. Film: Hijos de la guerra fría by Gonzalo Justiniano. Theoretical readings by Jorge Castañeda, Michael Reid, and Jean Franco.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 259:
Military, Intelligentsia, Las Madres of Plaza de Mayo & Tlatelolco: Film & Politics 1968-2009
An examination of how contemporary Latin American cinema (in documentaries and feature films) has focused on several historical "pockets" of the Continent: the Dirty War, the Falkland Islands war, the Tlatelolco Massacre, the Vladivideos and corruption in Peru, the Disappeared, as part of the historical reconstruction of the recent past. Films: La deuda interna, Rojo Amanecer, La historia oficial, Por esos ojos, La noche de los lápices, Mariposa Negra, Cautiva, Hijos/Figli and others.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 272E:
Clarice Lispector: the Style of Ecstasy
An exploration of the presence, both in the mystic and in the erotic sense, of the feeling of ecstasy in Clarice Lispector's texts (novels, short stories, chronicles). Ecstasy favors a non-conceptual approach to writing and reading and an effect of delight that can be only communicated by words that mimitizes music and visual arts. Theoreticians of ecstasy, eroticism and epiphany: G. Bataille, H. Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy; Gumbrecht, Lyotard. Course taught English with readings in English and Portuguese.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 323:
Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar (HUMNTIES 323)
Focus is on how authors and readers from this period theorize various historical processes: the rise of European imperialism; religious conflicts and revolutions; new understandings of the self and the world; and the rise of the novel. Authors: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Núñez Muley, Martorell, Rabelais, Camões, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 330:
Josep Pla: From Journalism to Literature
In the 1920s and 30s journalism gave the tone to a "normalized" Catalan culture, whose distinctive traits were a cosmopolitan outlook and a high degree of professionalism. It is in this context that the works of journalist Josep Pla grow from an underbrush of quality journalism that, long neglected, throws light on the social and political situation of the time and constitutes an unsurpassed civilizational referent for today's culture wars. Some of the journalists studied are Josep Pla, Eugeni d'Ors, Eugeni Xammar, and Gaziel. Readings in Catalan will be available in Spanish, but students are responsible for ordering the texts in the preferred version.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 332:
Race and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Spanish Empire
An analysis of the literature written in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries dealing with the empire post 1808. Authors discussed include Blanco White, Baroja, Avellaneda, and Rusiñol, among others
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 336:
Early 20th-Century Peninsular Spanish Poetry
Poetry in restoration Spain, 1871-1930, against the background of the democratic tradition of Spanish liberalism. Emphasis is on stylistic analysis and concepts such as the generation of 1898, modernism, Krausism, pure poetry, and symbolic systems.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 340:
The Crowded Solitude of Juan Rulfo: his Writing, his Photography, his Children, his Legacy
A study of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo's literary work and photography as well as the film adaptations of his work, his portrayal in documentaries authored by his son Juan Carlos Rulfo and his literary legacy among young writers who have "continue" his work, like Élmer Mendoza´s Cóbraselo Caro and Susana Pagano´s Y si yo fuera Susana San Juan?
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 344:
Theorizing the Novel after 1989
Issues of literary historiography, canon formation, and cultural relevance through a detailed study of selected works, criticism, and theory from the last two decades. Topics may include: postnationalism, cultural synchronization, fiction as commodity, revisions of dictatorship, new media ecologies, anxiety of influence, meaning-making communities, and relations to visual culture. Readings by Latin American authors: Bolaño, Vallejo, Eltit, Bellatin and Fuguet. Critical texts by Richard, Sarlo, Rancière, and Casanova.
| Units: 3-5
ILAC 370E:
Machado de Assis: Mimesis, Memory and money Machinations
Machado de Assis's paradoxes: the greatest author of the 19th Century and his oblique and peripheral perspective. The ruins and rebuilds of memory: Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Memorial de Aires; Jealously view and its mimesis in Dom Casmurro; his short stories and Rio de Janeiro's 19th century's sociability. The economy in his chronicles. Recent critical readings and editions. Course taught English with readings in English and Portuguese.
| Units: 3-5
