Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Contact Details
Ms Clare Szembek
(Departmental Co-ordinator)
tel 020 7679 3109;
internal extension X33109;
email c.szembek@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco
(Head of Department)
tel: 020 7679 4332;
internal extension X34332;
email: h.faraco@ucl.ac.uk
News & Forthcoming Events
- BBC News Magazine - Vicky Pryce and Miguel de Cervantes
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
SPAN4112
LATIN AMERICAN VANGUARD MOVEMENTS
(FORMERLY 'SURREALIST WRITING IN LATIN AMERICA')
Course unit value: 0.5
Duration: Second term
Day and Time: Thursdays, 9 - 11 am
Venue: TBC
Tutor: Dr María del Pilar Blanco
Assessment:
(1) In-class presentation (5-7 minutes) - 10% of final mark
(2) Three 500-word essays due throughout term - 20% of final mark
(3) Final essay (2,500 words) - 35% of final mark
(4) Final exam (2 hours) - 35% of final mark
Description
This course will study the thematic and stylistic influences and legacies of the Surrealist movement on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American writers, as well as the debates surrounding these. Looking at authors like Manuel Maples Arce, Aldo Pellegrini, Alejandra Pizarnik, Macedonio Fernández, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Alejo Carpentier, we will explore what Maurice Nadeau called surrealism's transnationalism, and the theoretical paradoxes that emerge with the movement's arrival in a Latin American artistic context.
Texts
Luis Buñuel, Simón del desierto (1965)
Alejo Carpentier, "El milagro del ascensor" (1928); Prologue to El reino de este mundo (1948)
Guillermo De Torre, Literaturas europeas de vanguardia (1925)
Macedonio Fernández, selections from No toda es vigilia la de los ojos abiertos (1928) and Papeles de recienvenido (1944)
Oliverio Girondo, Espantapájaros (al alcance de todos) (1932) and Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía (1922)
Felisberto Hernández, Libro sin tapas (1930) and Fulano de tal (1925)
Vicente Huidobro, Altazor (1919)
Wilfredo Lam, selected works and critical essays
Manuel Maples Arce, selections (Manifiestos de estridentismo; "Urbe"; 1927-)
Octavio Paz, La búsqueda del comienzo (1974)
Aldo Pellegrini, selections from ¿Qué? (1928-)
Alejandra Pizarnik, "Árbol de Diana" (1962)
César Vallejo, Trilce (1922)
General bibliography
To be accessed through Moodle
