Results for ILAC

Through major Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, and Catalan films from the last quarter of the 20th century to the present, this course will explore the complexities of individual recollection under conditions of collective trauma and political distortion of the past. Films by Saura, Almodovar, Amenobar, Erice, Marco Martins, Maria de Medeiros, Julio Medem, Almodovar, Bigas Luna, Ventura Pons, and Agusto­ Villaronga. A festival for the eye and the mind.

Borges's creative process and practice as seen through the lens of translation. How do Borges's texts articulate the relationships between reading, writing, and translation? Topics include authorship, fidelity, irreverence, and innovation. Readings will draw on Borges's short stories, translations, and essays. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: 100-level course in Spanish or permission of instructor.

The purpose of this course is to study major figures and historical trends in modern Iberia against the background of the linguistic plurality and social and cultural complexity of the Iberian world. We will study the fundamental issues of empire, the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, Latin American independence, recurring civil wars, federal republicanism, and the historic nationalisms (Galician, Basque, and Catalan), all leading up to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which is a defining moment in modern Spanish and European history, with ongoing consequences still felt and debated painfully today in contemporary Spain. This course is designed to help prepare students for their participation in the Stanford overseas study programs in Barcelona and Madrid. Taught in Spanish.

From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of thennation; 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 may include: Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Darío, Martí­, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, Garcí­a Marquez, Lispector, and Bolaño. Taught in Spanish.

Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.

Focus on representative authors and works of modern Lusophone African literature (the literatures of Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe) as well as relevant work in post-colonial theory. Students may take the course in English (3 units) or in English and Portuguese (5 units). Students who choose to take the course for five units must attend the Friday Portuguese discussion section.

Borges's creative process and practice as seen through the lens of translation. How do Borges's texts articulate the relationships between reading, writing, and translation? Topics include authorship, fidelity, irreverence, and innovation. Readings will draw on Borges's short stories, translations, and essays. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: 100-level course in Spanish or permission of instructor.

The purpose of this seminar is to provide an approach to the dominant conceptions about culture and cultural policies, starting with the doctrine of UNESCO about the protection of cultural diversity. We will compare different developments of those ideas and policies in Europe and in Latin America. We will study some policies on specific cultural fields (education, cultural heritage, infrastructures and access to culture, communications and social languages, entertainment and performing arts, content production and distribution industry, etc.) Finally, we will analyze the current public policies of European and Latin American states, in a changing cultural age determined by globalization, computing development, digitization and the prominence of networks and download and interconnection technologies.

Can music be a medium to study how a society communicates? This course wants to answer this question by paying attention to how has Spanish changed and adapted in recent history. Taking rock and pop as a global musical phenomenon, the focus of the course will be the most prominent bands and songs in Spanish language. Emphasis is on the analysis of the use of Spanish in real-world contexts. In Spanish.

The course will involve extensive and detailed reading, in addition to listening and viewing of materials that represent different modes of artistic expression. We will use literature, music/voice/sound, and film as tools in the process of self-discovery and re-discovery. Some of the questions we will address are: why do we write or speak in a certain way? Why might a particular musical piece, or a certain film, allow us to express who we are? How might our cultural background affect our preference for a work of art? What does that say about us? Further, do we see ourselves as part of a collective or as individuals? Focusing on a different artistic medium each week, the students will choose a work reflecting their individuality to bring for discussion within the group.

Analysis of representations of queer lives in films from the Spanish-speaking world (including the U.S.). We will be looking at the meaning each film produces about a wide variety of queer experience, in relation to a specific national, historical and cultural context. We will also practice doing close readings of how each film produces meaning about queer experience, focusing on the formal features mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, editing , narrative and style.

Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.

The most universally acclaimed Latin American writer since the Boom, Roberto Bolaño has recently joined transnational literary canons. But what does that tell us about the phenomenon of World Literature itself? The class will provide an overview of Bolaño's vast oeuvre by considering nouvelles, selected short stories, and sections of the long novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. The focus will be on exploring the multifarious relationship of Bolaño and the world. Up-to-date critical bibliography includes readings by Sarah Pollack, Gareth Williams, Sergio Villalobos, and others. Taught in Spanish.

Examines major questions and issues that arise in considering race, sex, and gender together. Focus on critical and theoretical texts queering ethnic and diaspora studies and bringing race and ethnicity into queer studies. Close reading of texts in a variety of media negotiating racialized sexualities and sexualized identities. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex acts? How to reconcile pleasure and desire with histories of imperialism and (neo)colonialism and structures of power?

For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.