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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (L45)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2019

L45 LatAm 3800Topics in Hispanic Cultures3.0 Units
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32M-W----1:00P-2:20PEads / 210 AcreeDec 18 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM15150
Desc:MAKING LATIN AMERICA POPULAR. Despacito. Fútbol. Telenovelas. All are forms of Latin American popular culture that are increasingly part of our everyday reality here in the U.S. All are also inseparable from stories of inequality, ethnic tensions and celebrations, understandings of gender relations, and notions of hope that blend ideas of nation with cultural consumption. While popular culture in Latin America is often considered a contemporary phenomenon, linked to the twentieth century and the mass production of cultural goods-film, books, music-it has deeper roots. We can trace these back to the nineteenth century, where people, cultural processes, and phenomena literally began making Latin America popular. This course will survey the emergence and variety of modern popular culture in Latin America, from the 1800s to the present. Readings may include best sellers, gaucho poetry, stories of urban life and folk heroes, and texts from the late twentieth-century engaging themes from dictatorship to the Latinx experience. We will also learn about the intersections between race, nation, and music, explore the emotional and political power of fútbol, and delve into the appeal of telenovelas across socioeconomic divides. Historical and anthropological essays will also guide us throughout the semester.
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42-T-R---8:30A-9:50AEads / 209 ValerioDec 13 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM15130
Desc:AFRO-LATIN AMERICA: BODIES AND VOICE. This class will introduce students to Afro-Latin American culture and literature from its inception to the present through representative textual and audiovisual culture. We will define the concepts of Afro-Latin American culture and literature. We will address the questions of what, who, where, why, how is Afro-Latin America? The course will privilege the black perspective, reading representations of black cultural practices against the grain. The aim of the course is to help students understand the role people of African descent and black culture has had and continues to have in the development of Latin American society and culture. The course seeks to deconstruct and expand our notions of Afro-Latin America. Students will become familiar with concepts such as race, ethnicity, confraternity, palenuqe/quilombo, and cultural agency. Classes will combine lectures by the instructor, student presentations, collective debates and cooperative learning, and will entail the use of required bibliography and audiovisual materials.
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50M-W----11:30A-12:50PTBAcancelledDec 17 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM000
Desc:MEXICAN IDENTITY: LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES. In this course, we will look at intermedial cultural productions in Mexico during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that helped forge a sense of identity. Through a study of film, literature, the illustrated press, photographs, essays, the arts, events, and cultural happenings, we will analyze the different methods by which fictions like citizenship and Mexicanness, or lo mexicano, were constructed and sold to the world as "geniune" ways of being a Mexican. For instance, the Mexican golden age of film during the 1940s and 1950s included the movie Maria Candelaria (Fernandez 1944), which contributed to stereotyping indigenous culture as essentially Mexican, while simultaneously marginalizing the breathing members of that culture. Theoretical readings on topics such as culture, race, and nation will inform a variety of interpretations of the materials. Some events that will serve as milestones include the following: the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the appropriation of oil by the Mexican government in 1938, the Mexican Golden Age of film (1940s and 1950s), the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, and the Mexican Cinematic New Wave of film that started in the 1990s.
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