Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

SP13 Lecture Course

Lectures take place on *Fridays 2pm*, *Tuesdays 1pm*, so you must keep these times free in your timetable.

Michaelmas Term

Week Fridays 2pm (Venue tba) Tuesdays 1pm (Venue tba)

1

Popular Culture 1: Introduction and Manuel Puig (SB) Testimonio 1: Biografía de un cimarrón, Rigoberta Menchú (RO)

2

Urban Cinema 1: La vendedora de rosas, Amores perros and Cidade de Deus (GK) Popular Culture 2: Alberto Fuguet et al., McOndo (EK)

3

Urban Cinema 2 / Post-Dictatorship Argentine Cinema 1: Moebius and La sonámbula (GK) Escritura femenina 1: Diamela Eltit (EK)

4

(rescheduled lecture - see 23rd Nov)
HT
Decline & Fall of the Lettered City 1: Roberto Bolaño,  Estrella distante and Literatura Nazi en América  (RO)

5

HT Roberto Bolaño: Amuleto, Nocturno de Chile (RO) Decline & Fall of the Lettered City 2:
Carlos Fuentes, Cristóbal nonato and La voluntad y la fortuna (SB)

6

Post-Boom Detective Fiction: Santiago Gamboa, Perder es cuestión de método; Luis Ospina, Soplo de vida [film] (GK) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

7

(no lecture or rescheduled lecture) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

8

Pathways of Memory and Testimony: Doris Salcedo, Ana Mendieta (ES) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

 

Lent Term

Week Fridays 2pm (LB9) Tuesdays 1pm (LB10)

1

Testimonio 2 / Escritura femenina 3: Laura Restrepo, La novia oscura, La multitud errante (RO) Escritura femenina 2: Margo Glantz (ES)

2

Queer Textualities 2: Pedro Lemebel, Loco afán, Tengo miedo torero (RO) Rewriting History: Abel Posse, Los perros del paraíso; Tomás Eloy Martínez, Santa Evita (CM)

3

Solanas/Post-Dictatorship Argentine Cinema 2: Solanas, La hora de los hornos, Sur, La nube (JP) La novela de la dictadura 1:
García Márquez, El otoño del patriarca, Augusto Roa Bastos, Yo el Supremo (SB)

4

Post-Dictatorship Argentine Cinema 3: Alejandro Agresti, Boda secreta and Albertina Carri, Los rubios (JP) HT Queer Textualities 1/La novela de la dictadura 2: Cristina Peri Rossi, La nave de los locos and Luisa Valenzuela Cola de lagartija (GK)

5

HT César Aira: Ema la cautiva, Cómo me hice monja (SB) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

6

(no lecture or rescheduled lecture) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

7

(no lecture or rescheduled lecture) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

8

(no lecture or rescheduled lecture) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

   

ES = Erica Segre, EK = Ed King, SB = Steven Boldy, RO = Rory O’Bryen, GK = Geoffrey Kantaris, JP = Joanna Page, CM = Catriona McAllister