SP5 Lecture Course
Lectures take place on *Tuesdays 3pm*, *Wednesdays 3pm*, so you must keep these times free in your timetable.
Michaelmas Term |
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| 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 |
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| 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

