SP13 Lecture Course
Lectures take place on *Fridays 2pm*, *Tuesdays 1pm*, so you must keep these times free in your timetable.
Michaelmas Term |
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| 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) |
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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 |
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| 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) |
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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

