LATIN_AM 401: The Colonial Project: European Expansion and the Development of the Colonial/Post-Colonial World
Hey Graduate Students!
Please see below for Prof. Michelle Molina’s exciting new class on Colonialism!!! Whether you are interested in language, religion, anthropology, economics, or political science, this class is sure to be a stimulating look at the complex and intricate aspects of colonialism both as a general principle and as specific moments within human history!
SPANPORT 401 – Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory: The Letter in Latin America, Part II
Thursdays 2 – 5pm
Professor Jorge Coronado
-This course has two goals. First, it seeks to familiarize students with Latin American intellectual traditions in the twentieth century. In order to do so, it surveys a representative selection of pivotal figures in two different, and crucial, historical moments: the frenetic articulations of a properly Latin American identity and culture that pertain to the first half of the 20th century, and the attempts to reckon with the repercussions of the revolutionary projects of the mid-century that characterize the century’s last decades. Second, within and across these historical constellations, the course will analyze prominent conceptual paradigms that have defined intellectual discourse in and about the region, such as mestizaje, hybridity, and heterogeneity, focusing particularly on their evolution and metamorphoses. As we consider the advent and waning of elite, lettered production’s influence and power to shape national and regional conceptualizations, we will pay special attention to how alterity, gender, and coloniality inflect the region’s intellectual production. Readings will be derived from a list of primary texts with optional supplements from other sources.-
SPANPORT 455 – Comparative Studies in Latin American and/or Iberian Literatures and Cultures: Critical Cosmopolitanisms
Tuesdays 2 – 5pm
Professor Alejandra Uslenghi
– The seminar seeks to critically engage with two master narratives that have been instrumental in an understanding of subjective universal desires, interrelations and fictions of integrated totality, as well as material processes of global dislocation, disjuncture and displacement: cosmopolitanism and globalization. Can these concepts still provide us with an account of present cultural-political moment? What has historically been their critical potential? The experience of destitution and dislocation, of not belonging, the discontent of those could cannot leave or return, the new forms of crossing borders, and the displacement of immigrants and refugees, as they have been articulated in both aesthetic formations and theoretical discourses in Latin America, point us to re-examine the reconfigurations of this translocal space we call “the world”and historicize its imaginative forms.
We will discuss readings by 19th century writer Eugenio Cambareres, Rubén Darío and Latin American and French avant-garde writers, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, João Gilberto Noll, César Aira, films by Wong Kar Wai, as well as Nussbaum, Brennan, Jameson, Appadurai, Derrida, Arendt, Foucault and Butler.