printer friendly pageILAC 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 254: Surrealism in Latin America and Spain (Poetry and Fiction)
This course focuses on the legacy of Surrealism in the Hispanic transatlantic traditions, both in literature and the visual arts (film and paintings). We will study and analyze two aesthetic paths: on one hand, the embracing of Surrealism to enrich one¿s own poetics; on the other, that of other groups and authors' orthodox approach to the principles established by André Breton and his cohort in the aesthetic adventure. The course will study and assess Surrealism's lasting echoes in recent literary manifestations (among them Roberto Bolaño¿s works). Taught in Spanish.
Last offered: Spring 2014
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
ILAC 264: Visions of the Andes (ILAC 364)
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 266: Beware of the Animal: Narratives of Animality and Care in Latin America
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
ILAC 267E: Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia (HISTORY 205E, HISTORY 305E)
Analysis, in historical perspective, of similarities and differences between development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, on one hand, and China, Japan, and (South) Korea, on the other, topics include impact of colonial and postcolonial relationships on development of states, markets, and classes, as well as geopolitical, social, cultural, technological and environmental factors that shaped and were shaped by them.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
ILAC 268: Cultural Policies in Latin America and Europe. 1980-2015.
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an approach to the dominant conceptions about culture and cultural policies, starting with the doctrine of UNESCO about the protection of cultural diversity. We will compare different developments of those ideas and policies in Europe and in Latin America. We will study some policies on specific cultural fields (education, cultural heritage, infrastructures and access to culture, communications and social languages, entertainment and performing arts, content production and distribution industry, etc.) Finally, we will analyze the current public policies of European and Latin American states, in a changing cultural age determined by globalization, computing development, digitization and the prominence of networks and download and interconnection technologies.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Tresserras Gaju, J. (PI)
ILAC 271: Brazilian Presence: Landscape, Life and Literature
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
Last offered: Spring 2012
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
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