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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.
Last offered: Winter 2013

ILAC 363: Visions of the Andes (ILAC 263)

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

ILAC 364: Visions of the Andes (ILAC 264)

What visions and images of the Andes circulate in Latin American literature? How are they constructed? How is their value accrued? The course explores the visual economy of the Andes in representative literary texts of the 20th century, vis-a -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, Marti­n Chambi, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Cesar Vallejo, Jose Maria Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raul Salmon, Aurelio Arturo.
Last offered: Autumn 2011

ILAC 367: João/Joyce: Guimarães Rosa and the World Novel (COMPLIT 317)

A comparative analysis of João Guimarães Rosa's (1908-1967) work, with special attention to the novel Grande Sertao-Veredas, translated by a Stanford professor, launched by A. Knopf in 1963. Rosa's fiction disturbs gender, racial, and literary divisions by the creation of a Babelic Brazilian Portuguese language from the sertao. Students increase their literary vocabulary with new terms, nonada and conconversa, and a gallery of Indigenous, Afro-Americans, mestizos, and foreigners' characters. Discussions in English; readings in Portuguese and Spanish.
Last offered: Winter 2015

ILAC 368: Echopoetics: Literature, Performance and Visual Art in Brazil

This course explores 20-21th Century Brazilian Arts through the sense of listening and the notion of an echo-poetics. Authors may include: Glauber Rocha, Augusto Boal, the Concrete poets, Silviano Santiago, Nuno Ramos, Ligia Clark, Lispector, Hélio Oiticica, Zé Celso, Cildo Meireles, Veronica Stigger, André Sant¿Anna, Lourenço Mutareli, among others. (In Portuguese)
Terms: Spr | Units: 3

ILAC 373: Baroque Brazil

In this course we will read texts from and about seventeenth- andneighteenth-century Brazil, with special emphasis on the baroquenaesthetic in literature, art, and music. Authors include AntónionVieira; Gregório de Matos; Bento Teixeira; Sebastião da Rocha Pita;nNuno Marques Pereira; Manuel Botelho de Oliveira; and Frei Itaparica.nReadings in English and Portuguese. Taught in English.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Barletta, V. (PI)

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

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 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.
Last offered: Autumn 2012

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.
Last offered: Autumn 2014

ILAC 389E: Queer of Color Critique: Race, Sex, Gender in Cultural Representations (CSRE 289E, FEMGEN 389E)

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?
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
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