| | 32 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | Cupples I / 115 | Sánchez Prado | May 4 2020 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 12 | 11 | 0 | | Desc: | MEXICAN FOOD CULTURES. This course will approach the question of Mexican food in an interdisciplinary manner. Drawing from literature, cinema, history, media, cookbooks, art and other sources, the class will explore the history, development and present of Mexican food as expressed in culture. We will discuss, among other things, the role that ancient Mexican ingredients like corn and chocolate have in the cultural imagination, the problematic idea of "authenticity," the way in which "Mexican food" appropriates and erases indigenous and local traditions, the role of gender in the study of food, the reading of documents like cookbooks and old writings, and the frictions between Mexican and Mexican American food traditions. The course will be in Spanish. Students will have a strong, mandatory and graded oral component, as well as various written assignments, both of which are required to pass the class. |
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| 38 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | Cupples I / 216 | Sklodowska | May 5 2020 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 12 | 10 | 0 | | Desc: | THE PARADOXES OF CONTEMPORARY CUBA: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE IN-BETWEEN. In the wake of such momentous events as President Obama's visit to Cuba (March 2016), Fidel Castro's death (November 2017) and the end of Raul Castro's presidency (April 2018), for many Americans the island has advanced from the category of a forbidden and exotic fruit to a full-fledged reality. Now is a good time to ask not only "What is next for Cuba?" but also "What can we learn from Castro's revolutionary experiments?" This course explores the paradoxes of Cuban lives on the island and in the diaspora--the good, the bad, and the in-between--along with the intertwined histories of the United States and Cuba. Using a combination of literary texts (Carpentier, Cabrera Infante, Ponte, Bobes, Obejas, Morejon, Padura), films ("Strawberry and Chocolate," "Guantanamera," "The Promise," "The New Art of Making Ruins"), artwork (Mendieta, Bruguera, Garaicoa), political speeches, and unique visual materials compiled by the instructor throughout her many research trips to Cuba, we will look at the island's contemporary reality through the lens of its colonial and postcolonial past. Topics include ethnic and gender identities, the "myths" of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, African-Cuban spirituality, popular music, political oppression and dissent, and the interplay of migration and exile, along with multiple perspectives on everyday life (foreign tourism, food rationing, dual-currency economy, restoration of colonial Havana, education, and healthcare). |
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| 51 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-12:50P | Cupples II / L015 | Infante | No Final | 12 | 10 | 0 | | Desc: | REDES / NETWORKS: DIGITAL CULTURES IN 21ST-CENTURY SPAIN. This course examines from interdisciplinary and collaborative perspectives the new digital cultures emerging in Spain during the first two decades of the 21st century. Shaping and connecting an innovative series of creative, political, artistic, and social redes or networks, the emergence of new digital media has radically changed the cultural forms produced and circulated in Spain today. How do these different digital networks function, in what ways are these redes formed, and to what extent have they changed the material, ideological, and social ramifications of culture in the 21st century? The course provides an overview of network theory applied to contemporary cultural studies, while at the same time exploring a wide range of cultural materials specifically connected to particular redes or digital networks emerging in Spain in the last two decades. The materials studied will range from digital literatures--such as poetry (Alex Saum-Pascual), graphic novels (Fernandez Mallo), alternative forms of literary and cultural journalism--to music (Rosalia), visual arts (Varvara & Mar), cinema (Isaki Lacuesta, Chus Gutierrez), as well as the generation of new forms of social activism (such as the #8M feminist movement) and alternative political communities (15-M). We will also examine in particular the role of new media platforms (YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook) in the contemporary production and circulation of digital culture. Course taught in Spanish. |
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| 52 | M-W---- | 2:30P-3:50P | Eads / 212 | Zavala | May 4 2020 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 12 | 9 | 0 | | Desc: | MEXICAN FOOD CULTURES. This course will approach the question of Mexican food in an interdisciplinary manner. Drawing from literature, cinema, history, media, cookbooks, art and other sources, the class will explore the history, development and present of Mexican food as expressed in culture. We will discuss, among other things, the role that ancient Mexican ingredients like corn and chocolate have in the cultural imagination, the problematic idea of "authenticity," the way in which "Mexican food" appropriates and erases indigenous and local traditions, the role of gender in the study of food, the reading of documents like cookbooks and old writings, and the frictions between Mexican and Mexican American food traditions. The course will be in Spanish. Students will have a strong, mandatory and graded oral component, as well as various written assignments, both of which are required to pass the class. |
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