printer friendly pageSPANLIT 101N: Visual Studies and Chicana/o Art
Preference to freshmen. Images, context, and spectatorship. Who is seen and not seen in visual contexts? Whose gaze is privileged? Which aspects of the past are circulated as visual representations? Whose fantasies are fed by which visual images? In what circumstances is looking and returning the gaze an act of political resistance? How do people interact with images to make and remake the world in the shape of their own desires and fantasies?
Last offered: Spring 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
SPANLIT 102N: Contemporary Latin American Theater
Representative playwrights and theater troupes of Spanish speaking Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the 60s and 70s. Topics: representation and politics; theatrical language and poetics; avant gardes and performance;
teatro comprometido; psychodrama; influence of Brecht, Artaud, and the Theater of the Absurd. Plays by Emilio Carballido, Sabina Berman, Virgilio Piñera, Jose Triana, René Marqués, Luis Rafael Sánchez, La Candelaria, Yuyachkani, Osvaldo Dragún, Griselda Gambaro, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Egon Wolff.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
SPANLIT 104N: Race and Slavery in Literature of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Empire
Preference to freshmen. How race, slavery, and abolition were discussed in the Spanish context and how this differed from parallel debates in the Anglo-American world. 19th-century writers from Cuba and Spain who questioned the validity of race as a concept and the morality of colonial slavery. Sources include Cuban and Spanish novels, plays, and poetry, and authors who may include Sab, Cecilia Valdez, Don Alvaro, Carolina Coronado, and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
SPANLIT 106N: Contemporary Latin American Novel in Translation
Preference to freshmen. Representative Latin American novelists who attained international readership after the literary boom. Critical readings and theoretical debates. Topics include: latinoamericanidad, reactions to magical realism, crime and the city, politics of translation, economies of prestige, revisions of dictatorship, relations with contemporary art, representations of class and gender, globalization. Works by Piglia, Vallejo, Aira, Bellatin, Melo, and Bolaño. Film adaptations by Piñeyro and Schroeder.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
SPANLIT 107N: Latin American Women: Novels and Films
Preference to freshmen. New trends. Focus is on the relationship between literature and cinema in the late 20th century. Artists include Valeria Sarmiento, Maryse Systach, Lucrecia Martel, Beatriz Flores, Ana Poliak, Albertina Carri, and Ana Ines Roque.
Last offered: Winter 2007
SPANLIT 108Q: Latin American Cinema: Politics and Aesthetics
Preference to sophomores. What is cinema? What makes a film work as drama or art? How is a story presented to an audience for a political and social interest? Is society or the individual more important for these films? Films since the 60s about the Cuban revolution, the Argentinean dirty war, the Falkland Islands war, the disappeared in Chile and Uruguay, political science fiction, transnational cinema, and horror fantasy.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SPANLIT 109Q: Ten Latin American Protagonists who Changed the World
Preference to sohomores. Life stories and portraits of Eva Peron, Frida Kalho, Che Guevara, Michelle Bachelet, sub-comandante Marcos, Lula , Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Pele, and Victor Jara. The dynamics of Latin American culture. Sources include documentaries, film, video, news, readings, and archives.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
SPANLIT 119N: Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City: Modernism and the Latin American City
Preference to freshmen. The influence of architectural, artistic, and literary modernism on three Latin American cities during the 50s. The urban planning theories of Le Corbusier as adopted by architects including Clorindo Testa, Mario Pani, and Ricardo Porro. Authors include Le Corbusier, Marshall Berman, Jane Jacobs, Julio Cortázar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Carlos Fuentes. Films:
I Am Cuba, Los Olvidados, and
Sucedió en Buenos Aires.
SPANLIT 120: Introduction to Literary and Scholarly Research
Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. How to write a research proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; bibliographical essays; rhetorical strategies; and common logical fallacies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Surwillo, L. (PI)
SPANLIT 125: The Forms of Wonder
The representation of wonder in early colonial texts written by European chroniclers, its problematic re-appropriation by the magic realist novel, and eventual exhaustion within Latin American literature.
Last offered: Winter 2008
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