alvarezm
SPAN505B
Literatura de viaje y la invención discursiva de América Latina
Este curso se propone examinar el variado corpus de relatos de viaje sobre América Latina producidos desde la llegada de los exploradores europeos hasta la actualidad, con un enfoque particular en la época contemporánea.
FREN430A
Studies in Quebecois and Canadian Literature: Great Women Writers of the 20th and 21st Century Our class will focus on the literary revolutions spurred by women writers in the 20th and 21st Century, in both Québec and francophone Canada. Students will have multiple opportunities to explore their own fields of interest and specialization. No prior […]
Le monde en ruines : Espaces brisés de la littérature contemporaine
Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire is excited to announce the recent publication of his edited volume on the poetics of ruins in contemporary literature. The publication consists of contributions from both established and young scholars from Canada, France and Switzerland. Their essays touch on a variety of topics and locales, from the trenches of the Great War […]
ITST377
Cultural Exchange between Modern Italy and China Since Marco Polo, Italy’s communication with China has been the longest in Europe on written record. In the 20th century, increased mobility intensified cultural exchanges between the two countries. Leading Italian writers such as Italo Calvino continued to imagine Polo’s legacy, making him a main character in his […]
SPAN590
Narrativa Sonora: Sound and Literature in Contemporary Latin American Fiction Instructor: Tamara Mitchell Language of instruction: Spanish Latin America has a rich and complex tradition of orality, both aural and textual. This course reads narrative fiction of the past three decades in relation to that tradition, considering how contemporary works build on, but more importantly diverge […]
SPAN520
Cervantes: Don Quijote and Beyond Instructor: Elizabeth Lagresa-González Language of instruction: Spanish This course examines Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s masterpiece “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha” (Part I, 1605) in relation to some of his lesser-known creations, the “Novelas ejemplares” (1613) and “Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados” (1615). By applying an […]
The Afrikaner
A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong. Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her family’s secret, seemingly wrapped in an old Xhosa’s spell. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the unredeemable sense of guilt haunting her white […]
Oikosophia: Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
Why «Oikosophia», and what does this new and yet archaic word mean? Sophia in Greek means Wisdom, a knowing, or intelligence, which once used to be called “of the heart”: that is to say, an inherently relational, inborn way of being in unison with the totality of the living world, rather than the analytical approach […]
FREN520
Écrire l’utopie en France (18e-19e siècles) Instructor: Joël Castonguay-Bélanger Language of instruction: French Construction imaginaire d’une alternative face aux limites et aux vices du présent, description d’un espace idéal qui se serait développé dans les marges de l’histoire, l’utopie participe à la fois de la quête d’un monde meilleur et de la critique de l’ordre existant. Parce […]
Crónica de la minería de oro en Colombia: de la montaña al texto
This article evaluates the mining literary history of the mining town of Marmato, Colombia. Starting from novels like Tierra virgen (1897) by Eduardo Zuleta, La bruja de las minas (1938) by Gregorio Sánchez, I trace a line that follows the evolution of mining literature in Colombia, tracing its historical and cultural specificities. I introduce the term “Tropical Mining” to categorize some […]