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ILAC 272E: Clarice Lispector: Literature, Autobiography and Psychoanalysis

"If Kafka had been a woman. If Rilke had been a Jewish Brazilian born in the Ukraine. If Rimbaud had been a mother¿. If Heidegger had written the Romance of the Earth¿over there is where Lispector writes.¿ (H.Cixous.) From Near to the Wild Heart to her Complete Stories. In English, with Portuguese sections.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

ILAC 276: Aesthetics, Revolutionaries and Terrorists (ILAC 376)

Who is a terrorist and who is a revolutionary? With surge of Anarchism in the XXth Century, the "culture of fear" has been one of the axes of political activism. This course will explore the difference between the desire to correct injustice in society (Revolution) and the desire to destroy society (Terrorism) using literary texts and films. Readings will include novels and testimonies of the protagonists in various social struggles, as well as journalistic and academic papers about these social movements.
Last offered: Spring 2014

ILAC 277: Spanish and Society: Rock en EspaƱol

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Briceno, X. (PI)

ILAC 278: Senior Seminar: 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, written culture, empire, the rise of capitalism, Islam in the West, madness, reason and imagination, genius, and masochistic desire. (in Spanish)
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Barletta, V. (PI)

ILAC 278A: Senior Seminar: Machado de Assis. Discourse Networks and the Novel in Brazil

This course is designed to present the father of Modern Novel in Brazil, Machado de Assis, through a close reading of some of his masterpieces: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881), Dom Casmurro (1900), The Alienist and his short stories. Topics include: Slavery in Rio de Janeiro; Samba, Capoeira and Literature, the media revolution of 1880. In Portuguese, with Spanish section.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ILAC 279: Searching for identity

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Rulfo, J. (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.
Last offered: Autumn 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ILAC 281: Fernando Pessoa's Five forms of Anxiety

Ethics, politics, and philosophy in the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. A close analysis of five forms of anxiety that pervade Fernando Pessoa¿s poetry: 1) that you are a person; 2) that you are one person; 3) that you are yourself; 4) that your life can be wasted; and 5) that others may fail to understand you. How do these forms of anxiety shape Pessoa¿s style(s), his system of heteronyms, his interest in certain literary forms (such as esoteric and prophetic literature), and his perception of the Portuguese cultural and geohistorical context? Readings available in English and Portuguese. Taught in English.
Last offered: Spring 2014

ILAC 282: Queer Film (FEMGEN 282)

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5

ILAC 293E: Baroque and Neobaroque (COMPLIT 233, ENGLISH 233)

The literary, cultural, and political implications of the 17th-century phenomenon formed in response to the conditions of the 16th century including humanism, absolutism, and early capitalism, and dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and Asia. If the Baroque is a universal code of this period, how do its vehicles, such as tragic drama, Ciceronian prose, and metaphysical poetry, converse with one another? The neobaroque as a complex reaction to the remains of the baroque in Latin American cultures, with attention to the mode in recent Brazilian literary theory and Mexican poetry.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Greene, R. (PI)
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