printer friendly pageILAC 122: Drugs, Literatures and Visual Cultures in Latin America
This course aims to study the visibility of the drug object in some fin-de-siècle (19th and 20th centuries) Latin American literary practices, magazines, and journals of the time. Through the examination of this corpus of texts and images, we will discuss the idea of the cultural, geographical, social, sensorial crossings or borders and its critical connections with a literary narrative where the ethnographic journey (within the city or on the geopolitical boundaries of the nation) and the exploration of the limits of sensitivity are intertwined. In the same way, this course will study the different aspects of visual culture related to the representation of drugs in order to reposit images and texts in a dynamic cultural and sensory border and thus try to shake the narcographic maps of modernism.T his course will be taught in Spanish. This will be taught by visiting Professor Contreras.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Contreras, A. (PI)
ILAC 122A: Radical Poetry: The Avant-garde in Latin America and Spain (COMPLIT 122A)
The first few decades of the 20th century ushered in a dynamic literary and aesthetic renewal in Spain and Latin America. Young poets sought a radical change in response to a rapidly changing world, one marked by the horrors of World War I and the rise of a new technological urban society. This course will focus on the poetry and attendant manifestos of movements such as Creacionismo, Ultraismo, Estridentismo, Surrealismo and other -ismos. How did the European avant-garde (e.g. Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism) inform such aesthetic turns? In what ways did poetry assimilate modern visual culture while questioning established poetics? Authors may include Aleixandre, Borges, Cansino-Assens, G. Diego, G. de Torre, Huidobro, Larrea, Lorca, Maples Arce, Neruda, Tablada, and Vallejo. Taught in Spanish.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Filter Results: