LALS 697 - Studies in Latin American Culture

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Staff. The course will be an investigation of the most influential syles of conceptualizing the relationship between artistic or literary productions and political practices in Latin America between the 1950s and the present. We will pay special attention to the genesis and structure of the notion of "liberation", and to its subsequent crisis. We will also try to determine the predicament of political art and literature in times of globalization. We will read texts by, among others, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortazar, Glauber Rocha, Reinaldo Arenas, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Diamela Eltit, and analyze images of several artists, from Antonio Berni and Helio Oiticica, to Doris Salcedo and Cildo Meireles.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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