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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Same as E Lit 456
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the particular forms modernity assumes in Latin-American countries and to the ways in which national cultures, identity politics, and gender issues interweave during the 20th century. The course discusses three particular articulation of this topic: (1) Gender and the national question in Argentina: Eva Peron; (2) Gender and visual arts: Frida Kahlo; and (3) Gender and ethnicity: Rigoberta Menchu. Through these iconic figures students are introduced to the specific features that characterized three very different but representative cultural scenarios in Latin America. In each case, the context for the emergence of these highly influential public figures is studied from historical, social, and cultural perspectives. In order to explore the cultural and political significance of Eva Peron, Frida Kahlo, and Rigoberta Menchu, the course uses literary texts (speeches, letters, diaries, etc.), visual materials (photography, films, and paintings), and critical bibliography.
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3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is two-fold. First, it aims at greater familiarization with urban Latin America vis-Ã -vis popular culture ("bubblegum"), sports ("baseball"), and post-dictatorship/violence literature ("boom"). Second, the course offers a range of theoretical texts in social sciences, cultural studies, and literary criticism focused on Latin America empirically but of a larger, more general value. In addition, this is a writing-intensive course, the mechanics of which help structure the nuts-and-bolts of the course. Students are evaluated on how they are able to articulate the ideas and descriptions embedded in the reading material to their own interpretations and their own mini-projects. This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate course, in which students must come prepared to engage in an intense schedule of reading, writing, and discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Film 458
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes some critical and theoretical texts on modernity/postmodernity as well as representative novels and films of the post-Boom era that illustrate the topics of urban violence, sexuality, and marginality in several Latin-American countries.
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3.00 Credits
The goal of the course is to provide students with critical and theoretical tools that could be used for the analysis of Latin-American cultural history from a transdisciplinary perspective, from colonial times to the present. Some of the concepts discussed in class are: colonialism and coloniality, national culture, dependency theory, cultural antropofagia, lettered city, miscegenation, heterogeneity, hybridity, transculturation, peripheral modernity, media and mediation, postmodernity, postcoloniality, and collective memory.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Art-Arch 4615
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3.00 Credits
From the perspective of postcolonial theory, the course covers different aspects related to Latin America's cultural history, from the Discovery to the present. Some of the issues discussed in class are: the colonial encounter; Baroque culture and the emergence of Creole societies in the "New World," the connections between Enlightenment and nationalism, as well as the interweaving of "coloniality" and modernity. Prerequisite: IAS 165C (Survey of Latin-American Culture) or an advanced-level course on Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the key role urban development and urban cultures have had in Latin America, with particular emphasis on contemporary times. The goal of the course is to discuss the connections between the formation and expansion of cities, the definitions of citizenship, and the role of modernity in the development of "high" and "popular" cultures within different historical and geocultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to the issues of race, class, and gender. The course, which uses an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, also focuses on the phenomena of marginality, cultural resistance, nationalism, and consumerism as well as on the role played by the media in contemporary Latin-American societies. Some of the cultural expressions analyzed in the course are music (rock, pop, rap), sports, film, and video. Prerequisite: IAS 165C (Survey of Latin-American Culture).
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to analyze the process of nation formation in Latin America from the imaginaries of the "Creole nation" to the first half of the 20th century. Class discussion encompasses the study of theories on nation formation and nationalism as well as textual representations of national projects, such as Simon Bolivar's letters and discourses, selections from Facundo, Civilization, and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento; selected texts by Andres Bello, Alfonso Reyes, et al; Ariel, by J.E. Rodo; Pedro Henriquez Urena's Seis ensayos en busca de nuestra expresion; Jose Vasconcelos' La raza cosmica; José Carlos Mariategui's Siete ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana; and José Marti's "Nuestra America" and other essays. Some of the main topics discussed are the leading role of Creole elites in the consolidation of national cultures, the marginalization of women as well as indigenous and Afro-Hispanic populations, and the role of nationalism in the shaping of modern societies. Colonialism, Occidentalism, liberalism, positivism, nationalism, and modernity are some of the concepts that are explored both theoretically and in their particular discursive usages. Finally, the concept of nation(alism) is studied as a political/rhetorical device and as the resulting expression of agency, interest, and desire, in peripheral societies.
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