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Winter 2003
This information effective for Winter 2003. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
World Literature and Cultural Studies
[LTWL-109]
109. Topics in Cultural Studies: Introduction to Latin/o American Cultural Studies
Instructor:
Juan Poblete
E-mail: jpoblete@ucsc.edu
Office: 151 Merrill Faculty Annex
Office hours: at 151 Merrill Faculty Annex
Bibliography:
(available at Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust, Santa Cruz, 457-1195)
- Nestor
Garcia Canclini, Hybrid cultures: strategies for entering and leaving
modernity, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1995
- Latinos
Inc. (U of California Press), by Arlene Davila
- El
Puente/The Bridge, Arte Publico Press, by Ito Romo
- Mario
Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- Manuel
Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Martin
Rivas, Oxford Univ Press, by Alberto Blest Gana
- Scenes
from Postmodernity, Univ. of Minnesota Press, by Beatriz Sarlo
- Our
lady of the assassins, by Fernando Vallejo; translated by Paul Hammond.
London: Serpent's Tail, 2001
- Coursepack
(CP) Bay Tree Bookstore, on campus
Course Description:
The
course offers a historical overview of theoretical issues in Latin/o American
Cultural Critique. It focuses, on the one hand, on three historical epochs
in Latin American history (elite national formation, popular national
state, and transnational processes), and on the other, on new forms of
cultural analysis.
Objectives: The goals of the class are
- to better understand the connections between national communities, mass oriented cultures, and transnational processes,
- to familiarize students with the specific forms of cultural analysis recently developed in Latin/o America, and
- to understand
the limits and possibilities of Latin/o American Cultural Studies.
Evaluation:
| Midterm paper: (6–8 pages) | 15% |
| Oral report (8–10 minutes) | 10% |
| Written reports (see below) | 20% |
| Class participation | 25% |
| Final paper (8–15 pages) | 30% |
The
oral report will be a short (10 to 15 minutes) presentation on a particular
text. The written reports (one every week) will be typewritten, double
spaced, 2–3 pages of critical response to the readings. The midterm
paper should be a first attempt at dealing with the problems to be analyzed
on the final paper and should develop a critical bibliography (both historical
and literary). The final paper will be an original and comprehensive critical
assessment of one of the texts read in class.
Note:
Students with disabilities who may need accommodations please see
me as soon as possible during office hours, or make an appointment.
Weekly Schedule
Week
1
Tuesday: Introduction.
Thursday: William Rowe and Vivian Schelling, Memory and Modernity. Popular Culture in Latin America. A historical overview. p. 1-25 of the Coursepack, Esteban Echeverria, "The Slaughter House"
Week
2
Tuesday: Martin Rivas
Thursday: Martin Rivas
Week 3
Tuesday: Jesus Martin Barbero, Communication, culture and hegemony: from the media to mediations. On the historical relationship between folklore, popular, and mass culture in Latin America. p. 96-126.
Thursday: Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia. p. 1-190 (chapters 1-10). Jesus Martin Barbero, Communication, culture, and hegemony, p.127-146 of the Coursepack
Week 4
Tuesday: Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia. p. 191-end (chapters 11-end)
Thursday: Jesus Martin Barbero, Communication, culture and hegemony: from the media to mediations, p.146-172 of the Coursepack. Draft of midterm paper due.
Week 5
Tuesday: Nestor Garcia Canclini, Hybrid cultures: strategies for entering and leaving modernity. On new social subjects and the state as constructors of social memory. p. 1-65, 89-144.
Thursday: Nestor Garcia Canclini, Hybrid cultures, p.145-205. Borderstasis [videorecording]: the many lives of an end-of-the-century bandit: (a video diary) written and directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Midterm paper due.
Week 6
Tuesday: Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman (full text)
Thursday: Nestor Garcia Canclini, Hybrid cultures, p. 206-end.
Week 7
Tuesday: Scenes from Postmodernity, by Beatriz Sarlo
Thursday: Scenes from Postmodernity, by Beatriz Sarlo
Week 8
Tuesday: Our lady of the assassins, by Fernando Vallejo
Thursday: Latinos Inc., by Arlene Davila
Week 9
Tuesday: Latinos Inc., by Arlene Davila
Thursday: El Puente / The Bridge, by Ito Romo
Week 10
Tuesday: John Sinclair, "The Wealthiest Hispanics in the World"; Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, "Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Borders," "Norte-Sur," and "Radio Pirata: Colón Go Home!" Draft of final paper due.
Thursday: Final class