printer friendly pageILAC 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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ILAC 241: Fiction Workshop in Spanish
Enrollment limited. Spanish and Spanish American short stories approached through narrative theory and craft. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on the formal elements of fiction (e.g. character and plot development, point of view, creating a scene,etc.). Students will write, workshop, and revise an original short story throughout the term. No previous experience with creative writing is required. Readings may include works by Ayala, Bolaño, Borges, Clarín, Cortázar, García Márquez, Piglia, Rodoreda, and others. Prerequisite:
SPANLANG 102 or permission from instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Santana, C. (PI)
ILAC 243: The Millenium Novel in Latin America
Between 2000 and 2012, a young Spanish American novel emerges, taking at times a minimalist point of view to narrate individual stories with a subjective tone, or continuing a tradition of the historical panorama to present national tragedies that occurred in the last two or three decades. Focus is on this new type of novel from different countries, with such titles as "El cuerpo en que nací" by Guadalupe Entel; "Las teorías salvajes" by Pola Oloixarac; "El ruido de las cosas al caer" by Juan Gabriel Vazquez; and "Bonsai" by Alejandro Zambra, among others.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
ILAC 245: Brazilian Songs
Brazilian culture through its lyrics, rythms and songs: samba, bossa nova, tropicalia, MPB and its contemporary variations. Readings and class discussions in Portuguese. Assignments in English or in Portuguese.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
ILAC 251: Latin American Literary Theory
Latin American literary theory through the works of José Carlos Mariátegui, José Enrique Rodó, Alfonso Reyes, Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwartz, Angel Rama, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Josefina Ludmer, Flora Sussekind. This course will focus on the concepts of "the lettered city", "hybridization", "psychoanalysis", "marxist theory", "class struggle", "literary politics", "latinamericanism". In sum: Literary theory from the inside of Latin American culture, considering also its Western influences. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
ILAC 257: Dictatorships in Latin America through testimonies and film (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay in the 70s)
Focus on Pinochet coup, the Falkland Islands, the prison Libertad in Uruguay, the "Plan Condor." How literature, journalism and cinema denounced and revisited the worst political times in Latin America. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
ILAC 261: Voices in Brazilian Fiction
Brazilian Literary canon. Novels and short stories from independence to the present. Topics include romanticism and realism; regionalism; modernism and postmodernism. Authors may include: José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Silviano Santiago. Readings in Portuguese; Class discussions in English; Assignments in Portuguese or in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
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
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
ILAC 277: Spanish in Society
Emphasis is on the documentation and analysis of the use of Spanish in real-world contexts. Readings include representative scholarship from linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, psychology, and sociology. Topics include fieldwork methods, the ethnography of communication, conversational narrative, body language, and language ideologies and politics. Students will conduct their own ethnographic fieldwork and present findings to class. Taught in English (with fieldwork component in Spanish).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
for credit
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