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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will explore some of the most distinctive themes present in Spanish films over the last 40 years. The three main thematic units will be: the modernization of Spain since the 1960s (urban transformations; the changing face of love; new sexualities); old and new political orders (civil war, political repression, terrorism); playful worlds (thrilling boredom; the world is a stage).
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Using Spanish context as a case study, this course analyzes how literature shapes everyday life and how narrations play a central role in the configuration of a society. Films, novels, short stories, popular tales and other kind of narratives will be studied from a narratologic and cultural perspective, focusing on two paradigms: heroes' tales and urban legends. Violence and power, collective memories and ghosts, democracy and fictions are among selected topics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Narrating Photography - This course studies the intersection between narrative fiction and photography in modern Latin American literature. It traces the literary uses of the photographic image as a narrative trigger, an ambiguous and deceiving illustration of the object of representation, and a formal model for narrative dynamics. Among other possibilities, we will look at novels and short stories that include, refer to, or narrativize photographs, as well as photo-essays.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Meet the writers! We will study the work of several young, cutting-edge writers and artists from Latin America. Five of them will travel to Princeton and meet with seminar students. Discussion will focus on the relation between literature and politics, and the impact of globalization and other 21st century developments on culture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores recent cultural and artistic productions that deal with human rights and political violence issues in contemporary Latin America, focusing on the politics of memory behind representations of the past in the context of a "global" marketing of memory. By working with literature, testimony, film, photography, truth commissions, and processes of museification, it analyzes different modes of figuring the past as well as the areas that these languages leave aside when memory becomes the target of a "global market" and "trauma tourism."
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In this course we will read literature and essays, examine artwork, performances and blogs, and watch films produced in Cuba or the diaspora from the 1990s through the present. Themes include the economic crisis, publishing and new media, post-cubanidad, the Raul Castro era, and others. Authors, filmmakers and artists, some of whom will visit the class, include: Antón Arrufat, Tania Bruguera, Los Carpinteros, VÃctor Fowler, Abilio Estévez, Carlos Garaicoa, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Fernandez Pérez, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Ena LucÃa Portela, Antonio José Ponte, Reina MarÃa RodrÃguez, Juan Carlos TabÃo, Anna Lidia Vega Serova, Zoé Valdés.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A journey through critical periods and momentous events in the history of Madrid, as represented in narrative, essay, poetry, film, painting, photography, and music. Topics to be discussed include: social hierarchies, revolutionary movements, marginalities, social and political violence, the avant-guard (Lorca-DalÃ-Buñuel), migrations, repression and censorship, Almodóvar and the "movida," the culture of drugs and rock.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A course on messianic, utopian, and revolutionary thought in and of the Caribbean. How is the idea of the Caribbean rooted in Christian thought? How have the Haitian and Cuban revolutions been shaped by religious iconography--from "voodoo" to the dove on Castro's shoulder? What is the relation between a Dominican cult and US interventions in the region? In approaching these questions, we will pair a range of literary and historical readings with philosophical considerations of messianism's and utopia's relation to politics and time.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Many definitions of culture exist. Among them is the identification of culture within the body of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution or a group of people. This course considers culture as defined by ethnicity and gender in works that confront Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in Spain, as well as the challenges of indigenous New World beliefs, both locally and abroad. Readings will include the anonymous 'Abencerraje y la Hermosa Jarifa', the aljamiado 'Tafsira' of the Mancebo de Arévalo, and Guamán Poma's visual and verbal 'Nueva corónica y buen gobierno'.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an initiation into the inspiring complexities of literary translation. We will begin with a series of translation exercises; students will post, analyze and critique their own work and that of classmates on a blog. Each student will then select an author and work to be translated as the central project for the class, and embark on the process of researching, contextualizing, locating intertexts, and revising successive drafts to produce an effective translation. Each class will be accompanied by readings in translation theory and practice and guest speakers will provide additional perspective.
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