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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. For better or worse, "realism" and "magic" have come to be linked with Spanish American literature. This course examines in broad cultural terms the interplay of these two poles in Spanish America and investigates how we might critically appraise theirconjunction as realismo mág ico. Under the rubric of the "real" and realism are included chronicles, journalism, social realist and naturalist fictio n, and testim onios. Magic will be understood in similarly broad terms: witchcraft, the fantastic, the grotesque, the gothic, and the uncanny. Readings in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 200
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Full course for one semester. This course focuses on an essay tradition that reflects on questions related to modernity. The chronicles of the Cuban José Martà on the United States serve as an introduction to a series of themes and categories: democracy, popular culture, aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, spiritualism, anomie, consensus, and race, that are relevant to the study of the other authors. The reading of the primary texts-Rodó, Ortiz, Vasconcelos, Blanco, Lugones, Mariátegui, and Arguedas-is accompanied by the study of theoretical essays originating in other traditions: Baudelaire, Tocqueville, Renan, Eagleton, Hobsbawm, and H.L. Gates Jr. The principal axis of this course is the relationship between the aesthetic and the political, tracing an itinerary that goes from the appeal to beauty in consensual practices to their most elitist and authoritarian manifestations. Emphasis is on how the authors formulated a model nation, which stood as an alternative to that proposed by the liberal elite of the 19th century. Readings in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course analyzes contemporary Mexican narratives in the form of written and visual texts that have been produced from the mid-1980s to the present. Fictional novels, short stories, films, documentaries, performance art pieces, and blogs will help shed light on the most current and innovative aesthetic tendencies in the Mexican nation. The chosen works will aid us in gaining an understanding of the political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to their artistic creation. Topics and issues such as globalization, borders, and environmentalist movements will be addressed. This class will be interdisciplinary, since we will also draw on historical, social scientific, and cultural studies. Readings and video recordings are in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The notion of crime constitutes a point of articulation joining religious, philosophical, juridical, journalistic, historiographical, scientific, psychoanalytical, and other discourses. For this reason, it provides a particularly rich point of departure for the study of cultural production. This course focuses on the various ways in which crime has figured in Spanish American writing. Texts may include accounts of transvestite nuns and "deluded" mystics, detective novels, and literary or journalistic treatments of the drug trade and the criminal state apparatus. We will also consider filmic representations of crime. Theoretical readings address the development and function of penal, judicial, governmental, and medical institutions. Readings in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of instructor. Conference.
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The Spanish Picaresque Novel of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Origins, Evolution, and Consolidation of a Critical Literary Tool Full course for one semester. This course focuses on the autobiographical narrations of the pÃcaro, who ironically unveils the lies and hypocrisies of a corrupt society in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. We will trace the literary precedents of the picaresque novel in the Spanish Middle Ages and Renaissance in order to identify the defining characteristics of this popular sub-genre of prose. Then we will examine how this satirical discourse is constructed to offer the reader a rich mine of observations concerning every social milieu. Readings include the anonymous Vida del Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus Fortunas y Adversidades, Francisco de Quevedo's Vida del Buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo's La hija de la Celestina, Miguel de Cervantes's Rinconete y Cortadillo and La Gitanilla, Juan de Luna's Segunda parte del Lazarillo de Tormes, and Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses's La Ni a de los Embustes, Teresa de Manzanares. Primary readings in Spanish will be complemented by theoretical readings, mostly in English, by authors-Marcel Mauss, Judith Butler, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, among others. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent or consent of the instructor. ConSpanish Cinema Full course for one semester. In this course, we will consider a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the growing canon of Spanish cinema. From Bu uel's first experiments to the most recent releases, the films studied will be examined as both aesthetic texts and historical documents-documents that not only have a particular history, but serve to enact national histories as well. Directors whose films we will be discussing include álex de la Iglesia, Almodóvar, Amenábar, Bardém, Berlanga, Bigas Luna, BollaÃn, Borau, Bu uel, érice, León de Aranoa, Ma as, MartÃn Patino, Ménem, Miró, Nieves-Conde, Sáenz de Heredia, Saura, David Trueba, and Fernando Trueba, among others. Screenings held outside of class hours. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
New Media Culture in Latin America Full course for one semester. What do we mean when we talk about new media In this class, we will take this question as a point of departure for examining a series of cross-media aesthetic practices in contemporary Latin America. One assumption of the course is that "new media" refers to an entire "media ecology" underlying all cultural production in the present. This assumption is subject to revision, and the cultural objects we examine will allow us to test it. We will read and view texts of many kinds: printed books, films, digital archives, e-poems, blogs, online games, and installations. We will read texts by theorists of media, literature and the visual arts. This aims at understanding how contemporary Latin American writers and artists contend with the possibilities opened up by new media technologies, how they articulate forms of subjectivity and collective life, and what aesthetic formulas emerge from their efforts. Most readings are in Spanish, with some in English. Others include a combination of the two, which is an increasingly common trait of new media objects in Latin America. Class discussions will be in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor. ConferencThe Avant-Garde Imaginary in Latin America Full course for one semester. This course traces a lineage of avant-garde aesthetics in twentieth-century Latin America. We will examine how the avant-garde imaginary is formative for Latin American literary culture, up to the present. We will begin with readings of the most canonical representatives of the Latin American historical avant-garde and move through a series of works growing out of this tradition. A central question in our discussions will be how writers reframe the political impulses of the avant-garde while articulating their own authorial positions. We will study collections of poetry, which is arguably the central literary genre of the avant-garde and its successors. A number of our texts are pictorial in nature, which also evinces a central characteristic of the avant-gardes: a focus on the visual and an orientation toward multimedia works. Readings are in Spanish, with some theoretical texts in English. Class discussions will be in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor. Conference. The Evolution of Mexican Drama: From Traditional Theatre to Transnational Performance Full course for one semester. The genre of theatre has allowed for ideological expression as well as reflected social reality. In the case of Mexico, theatre has also served as a tool in the process of nation-building, and as a critique of that same nationalistic discourse. In this course, theatre is analyzed primarily as a sociocultural phenomenon within specific sociohistorical contexts as we study different moments of the Mexican theatre from the 20th and 21st centuries. We will begin with marginal revue and "tent" theatre, continue with vanguard and feminist theatre, and finish with performance art that takes place on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Our readings of the plays are supplemented by genre theory, performance, and cultural studies. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines the relationship between politics and culture in 16th- and 17th-century Spain. More specifically, the organizing theme is the convergence of absolutist monarchical power and religious authority, as formulated or contested in various cultural productions: poems, comedias, autos sacramentales, novellas, conduct manuals, court correspondence, pictorial emblems, and paintings. The construction of and resistance to a theocratic imperial order are analyzed from different theoretical perspectives. This course includes a substantial research project. Readings in Spanish. Prerequisites: Spanish 321 and one other literature course taught in Spanish or equivalent with consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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One-half or full course for one semester or one year.
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One-half or full course for one semester. Prerequisite: approval of instructor and division.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course provides a creative and critical introduction to the major disciplines of theatre art as well as an exploration of the history and practice of Western theatre traditions. Students will examine dramatic texts from a theatrical standpoint, attend and review theatre performances, and participate in performance and production activities. Lecture-conference.
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