ILAC 278A: Senior Seminar: Latin American Fiction and Theory
20th Century Latin American novels, short stories, and Literary theories. Authors may include: J-L Borges, J.J.Saer, Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, Lispector. Literary criticism by Gonzales Echevarria, Antonio Candido, H.Campos, M. Lienhard. Readings and class discussions in Spanish. Assignments in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
ILAC 280: Latin@ Literature (CHILATST 200, CSRE 200, ILAC 382)
Examines a diverse set of narratives by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Dominican heritage through the lens of latinidad. All share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, yet their im/migration patterns differ, affecting social, cultural, and political trajectories in the US and relationships to "home" and "homeland," nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs genders as well as sexualities. Emphasis on textual analysis. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
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
ILAC 305: Rhythm: Ethics and Poetics of the Premodern
Focus is on the notion of rhythm as a theoretical frame for the analysis of medieval and early modern Iberian poetry. Topics include Ancient Greek and modern conceptions of rhythm and the links between poetics and ethics in the medieval period and beyond. Authors include: Aeschylus, Plato, Aristoxenus, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, EmmanuelnnLevinas, Arcipreste de Hita, Ausiås March, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Luís de Camões. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 315: A short history of Iberian Cinema (ILAC 115)
A survey of Iberian cinema in the second half of the 20th century. Traces the slow making of an international success with directors like Saura, Almodóvar, Amenábar,Medem, Pons, Bollaín and Villaronga. Starting with the early Buñuel, the course examines cinema's shaping of the national imaginary and its articulation of collective memories suppressed during the Franco dictatorship, as well as the challenges of cultural continuity. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Resina, J. (PI)
ILAC 332: Race and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Spain
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
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Surwillo, L. (PI)
ILAC 345: Biopolitics and Sovereignity in Andean Culture, 1920-1940
What is productive life? How is life aesthetically and politically valued? This course explores the inscription of life in changing political and aesthetic regimes of the Andean South in the turbulent decades of the 1920s-1940s. Based on theories of biopower and soveregnity, we explore topics such as domination, domestication, appropriation, exclusion, facism, solidarity, tellurism, race, mestizaje, and human/nature relations. We will consider poetry, narrative, journals, and the visual arts. Authors include: Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Pablo de Rokha, Alcides Arguedas, Augusto Céspedes, Franz Tamayo, Leopoldo Marechal, Roberto Artl, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, José Carlos Mariátegui, Ciro Alegría, and José María Arguedas. Spanish proficiency required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
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
ILAC 380E: Critical Concepts in Chican@ Literature (CHILATST 201C, CSRE 201C)
Combines primary texts of Chican@ literature with a metacritical interrogation of key concepts informing Chican@ literary criticism, the construction of Chican@ literary history, and a Chican@ literary canon. Interrogates the resistance paradigm and the "proper" subject of this literature, and critiques established genealogies and foundational authors and texts, as well as issues of periodization, including the notion of "emergence" (e.g. of feminist voices or dissident sexualities). Considers texts, authors and subjects that present alternatives to the resistance paradigm.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ILAC 382: Latin@ Literature (CHILATST 200, CSRE 200, ILAC 280)
Examines a diverse set of narratives by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Dominican heritage through the lens of latinidad. All share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, yet their im/migration patterns differ, affecting social, cultural, and political trajectories in the US and relationships to "home" and "homeland," nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs genders as well as sexualities. Emphasis on textual analysis. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
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