HISTORY OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN CULTURES
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELLE CULTURE ISPANO-AMERICANE
- Course code
- LT1280 (AF:310961 AR:187624)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/06
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 3
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
1) to develop cultural and literary abilities in the Hispanic-American context, as well as to understand literary and essay texts in the field of reference;
2) to apply the knowledge and understanding skills to the texts that will be analyzed in the classroom, and to develop the ability to elaborate critical ideas in the field of study;
3) to elaborate autonomous judgments, including reflection on social, critical and literary issues in the Hispanic American context;
4) to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non specialists;
5) to develop the learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
-Antologia di testi: Gabriel García Márquez, Darcy Ribeiro, Cristóbal Colón, Bartolomé Las Casas, Hernán Cortés, Cabeza de Vaca, El Inca Garcilaso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rosario Castellanos, Fernando Ortiz, Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortázar, Mario Benedetti, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela, Rigoberta Menchu, Rosario Ferré.
-Belli, Gioconda, La donna abitata, Roma, Edizioni E/O, 1999.
-Alejo Carpentier, Concierto barroco.
-José María Arguedas, Los ríos profundos.
-Gabriel García Márquez, El general en su laberinto.
-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Beya.
-Mateo-Sagasta, Alfonso, Mala hoja.
-Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos/L’oblio che saremo
-Mylene Fernández, La esquina del mundo, 2011.
CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Perassi, Emilia e Scarabelli, Laura (a cura di), Itinerari di cultura ispanoamericana; Ritorno alle origini e ritorno delle origini, Torino, UTET, 2011;
-Antonio Cornejo Polar, Escribir en el aire. Ensayo sobre la heterogeneidad socio- cultural en las literaturas andinas.
-Walter D. Mignolo, La idea de América Latina. la herida colonial y la opción decolonial. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, 2007.
Any edition of the proposed texts is approved.
Assessment methods
Teaching methods
1) presentation of the author under study;
2) reading and analysis of the texts proposed in the bibliography.
Further information
13-14 sept 2021: Convegno internazionale “Diaspore. Del Mediterráneo a América Latina. Arte y literatura en las migraciones”.
20-21 sept 2021: Convegno internazionale “Diaspore. Del Mediterráneo a América Latina. Arte y literatura en las migraciones”.
12 oct 2021: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Valeria Luiselli
13 otct 2021: L’Altro sono io. Maratona di letture migranti
19 oct 2021: Presentazione del libro Puertas di María Cecilia Graña
26 oct 2021: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Jimena Néspolo
9 nov: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Alia Trabucco Zerán
23 nov: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Mylene Fernández
25-26 nov 2021: Il tempo delle donne. Un tempo per tutti. Giornata internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne
7 dec: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Guadalupe Nettel
9 dec 2021: Conferenza di Elide Pittarello: “Héctor Abad Faciolince: trauma, debito, memoria”
Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development