Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

 

SP5 Lecture Course

Lectures take place on *Tuesdays 3pm*, *Wednesdays 3pm*, so you must keep these times free in your timetable.

Michaelmas Term

Week Tuesdays 3pm (Venue tba) Wednesdays 3pm (Venue tba)

1

Nation & Narration: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo; Esteban Echeverría, El matadero (SB) The Racial ‘Other’: Jorge Icaza, Huasipungo (GK)

2

MC (no lecture or rescheduled lecture) The Racial ‘Other’: Alejo Carpentier, El reino de este mundo (RO)

3

Penning the Dictator: Luisa Valenzuela, Cambio de armas;
Marta Traba, Conversación al sur (GK)
Penning the Dictator: Miguel Ángel Asturias, El señor presidente (ES)

4

HT Labyrinths of Fiction: Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (SB) HT Labyrinths of Fiction: Bioy Casares, La invención de Morel; Felisberto Hernández, Las hortensias (EK)

5

Charting Revolution: Mariano Azuela, Los de abajo (LP) Nightmares of the Urban: Roberto Arlt, El juguete rabioso (RO)

6

Charting Revolution: Juan Rulfo, El llano en llamas (RO) Nightmares of the Urban: Luis Buñuel, Los olvidados (ES)

7

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

8

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

 

Lent Term

Week Tuesdays 3pm (LB1) Wednesdays 3pm (LB2)

1

Nation & Narration: José Enrique Rodó, Ariel; Roberto Fernández Retamar, Calibán (RO) Nightmares of the Urban: Íntimo terror [film]; Cronos [film] (GK)

2

MC Charting Revolution: Nellie Campobello, Cartucho & newsreel (ES) Nightmares of the Urban: Eliseo Subiela, Últimas imágenes del naufragio (film) & Ricardo Piglia, Plata quemada (JP)

3

Charting Revolution: Carlos Fuentes, Gringo viejo and Ángeles Mastretta, Arráncame la vida (SB) Labyrinths of Fiction: Julio Cortázar, Pasajes (SB)

4

HT The Racial ‘Other’: Clorinda Matto de Turner, Aves sin nido (SB) HT Labyrinths of Fiction: Sergio Renan (dir), El sueño de los héroes (film) (GK)

5

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

6

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

7

The Racial ‘Other’: Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán (ES) (no lecture or rescheduled lecture)

8

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

ES = Erica Segre, EK = Ed King, LP = Luis Pérez, SB = Steven Boldy, RO = Rory O’Bryen, GK = Geoffrey Kantaris, JP = Joanna Page