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What can we learn from literary and filmed representation of care? What is the relationship between care and animality? Taking stock of a growing number of contemporary Latin American novels and films that focus on precarious forms of shared life (animal and human-animal), the course explores the ambiguous directionality of care for and against to consider new forms of human-nonhuman collectivities. We study different modes of care and caring identities. In Spanish.

The African-Brazilian population in the state of Minas Gerais and the ritual of the coronation of the kings and the queens of the Congo in the Devotion to Our Lady of Rosario. Texts by Antonio Vieira, Guimarães Rosa and others. Multimedia digital experiments with videos and the production of sonic textures. Taught in Portuguese.

This course explores Brazil's literature and its representation of the country's diverse regional cultures and ecology. The course offers an in-depth discussion of Brazilian society, presenting fundamental texts that portray Brazilian landscape with its diverse eco-regions, people and culture. The program includes major authors such as Euclides da Cunha and his description of the Amazon in the early 1900s; the travels of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and his contact with Caduveo, Nhambiquara, Bororo and Tupi indigenous tribes; Mario de Andrade's novel, Macunaima and its ironical representation of Brazilian identity and miscegenation; Guimaraes Rosa's short stories that show the imagery of the sertao and its people (the sertanejo culture); Milton Hatoum's novel, The Brothers, and its impressive portray of Manaus city in the 20th Century as an unstable world seen through the lens of Lebanese immigrants. These central books will be discussed together with critical essays about some important historical and contemporary challenges that Brazil has faced and continues to grapple with today

"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.

Salsa is the soundscape of 20th century Latin America. How is it possible that salsa stands for Latin American music? How can we understand its origin and its musical expansion? We learn how salsa voices transformation and self-exploration of different places and moments in all of Latin America and the US and we analyze how it travels across the world. We discuss musical examples in relation to colonialism, globalization, migration, nationalism, gender and ethnicity. As a core course of the Spanish major, Cultures of Salsa emphasizes the analysis of Spanish in real-world contexts.

Open to seniors in ILAC and Spanish: others by permission of instructor. nnThis course will study the poetry of Lorca and his generation, the so-called Generation of 1927. We will concentrate on the rediscovery of the poetry of Luis de Góngora and its impact in revolutionizing poetic language in modern Spain. Special attention will be given to close stylistic analysis and to the historical and social conditions out of which arose the progressive intellectual and educational movement that gave rise to this renaissance of brilliant poetry. Taught in Spanish.

Literature and Anthropology in Latin America (including Brazil. Amerindian perspectivism and the poetics of translation.

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.

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.