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ILAC 242: Poetry Workshop in Spanish

Latin American and Spanish poetry approached through elements of craft. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on lyric subgenres (e.g. ode, elegy, prose poetry) and formal elements of poetry (e.g. meter, rhythm, rhetorical figures, and tropes). Students write original poems over the course of the quarter. No previous experience with creative writing is required. Authors include Dari­o, Machado, Jimenez, Vallejo, Huidobro, Salinas, Pales Matos, Lorca, Aleixandre, Cernuda, Neruda, Girondo. Course is offered every other year. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: 100-level course taught in Spanish, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 10 students.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

ILAC 245: Brazil's Rhythm and Songs

Audiovisual introduction to Brazilian popular music. Chorinho, Samba, Frevo, Forro, Bossa Nova, Tropicalia, Pagode, Repente, Hip-Hop, Axe. Candomble and Capoeira rhythms. Amerindian Songs. Dances and Rituals: Bumba meu Boi, Congada, Caterete, Carnaval. Drama Performances and Musical Films. Final visual-sonorous exhibition created by students. In English. Special sections for Portuguese learners.
Last offered: Spring 2015

ILAC 246: Critical Issues of Human Rights through Literature

This course seeks to explain some of the most relevant contemporary problems of contemporary human rights through the eyes of literature. Through novels, the course problematizes some issues of human rights that, from a legal perspective, are simplified or captured merely through legal forms i.e. rules. These novels highlight the social and political tensions involved in the rise of human rights and in some of its most urgent problems during their short history. Human rights legal forms generally simplify a wider array of tensions that this course brings to the foreground. Taught in Spanish. INSTRUCTOR: Jorge González-Jacome.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-A-II

ILAC 247: Film and Politics: Argentina in the Hour of the Furnaces

Argentina is the best example of a Latin American country that went from democracy to dictatorship, to war (Falkland Islands war) to democracy, to terrorist attacks (against AMIA, the Jewish center), to financial crisis (Corralito), to corruption, to a polemically unique leftist female president (Cristina Kirchner). This course will focus in the documentary work of Fernando Solanas (The hour of the furnaces, Fierro's sons, Tangos, South, Social Genocide, Latent Argentina, The Dignity of the Nobodies, The next station, etc.) that covers sixty years of convulsive history and social crisis.
Last offered: Winter 2016

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.
Last offered: Winter 2013

ILAC 252: Guerillas

The modern strategic response to state dictatorships in Latin America has its origins in Ernesto Che Guevara's "Guerra de guerrillas". This course will focus on how those irregular military groups were formed in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay during the 20th Century. We will give particular attention to the "invisible" guerrillas" (the women) in revolutionary moments. That view will be enhanced by films and literature on this subject. Authors include Palau, Ignacio Taibo II, Tort, Gibler, Guevara, Gilio, Caula, and Cavallo.
Last offered: Winter 2015

ILAC 253: Poverty, Redemption and Writing: Franciscanism in Latin America

How are theories of poverty reflected in literary writing? What is the relationship between writing and redemption? Addressing these central questions, the course examines the heritage of Catholic thought and aesthetics in prominent colonial and post-colonial Latin America through the figure of Francis of Assisi. Franciscan writing allows us to explore the notions of subjectivity, solidarity, exception, animality, and capital. In Spanish.
Last offered: Spring 2015

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.
Last offered: Spring 2013

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.
Last offered: Spring 2013

ILAC 263: Visions of the Andes (ILAC 363)

What visions of the Andes circulate in Latin American literature, photography and painting? How are they constructed? How is their value accrued? The course focuses on visual and written images of Andean landscapes. Beginning with 19th century technical photography, the course explores the visual economy of the Andes in representative texts and images from Peru, Bolivia and Chile, vis-à-vis critical discourses about Andean culture. In Spanish.
Last offered: Winter 2015 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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