Latin American literature in translation. From the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
This podcast is an Open Educational Resource produced at UBC, though it does not claim to speak for or represent the university or its Spanish program.
It is inspired by UBC's strategic plan: "UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible, with expanded creation and dissemination of open educational resources. [. . .] We must redouble our efforts to make sustained progress."
More info at https://span312.arts.ubc.ca
Literature constructs for us scenarios and spaces in which, at least for a time, other habits and customs are in play, and which thus allow us to see that the rules of the everyday games that we play are as arbitrary as any others.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
04:00 Questions
16:06 Seeing and Playing Difference
30:56 Credits
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8 Apr 2023
On Latin American literature
A conversation for SPAN 312 about teaching and reading Latin American literature. With Erin Graff Zivin and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ (https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/).
00:00 Introduction
01:13 The Canon and Beyond
08:28 Latin America and Beyond
10:37 Images of Latin America
14:20 The Latin American Writer and the Tradition
19:40 Going Beyond Ourselves
22:27 Reading as Misreading
25:55 Inexhaustible Texts
29:54 Good Enough Readings
38:07 Repetition and Learning
37:40 Credits
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8 Apr 2023
On Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
A conversation for SPAN 312 about Samanta Schweblin's novel of uncanny horror on the Pampas, Fever Dream. With Jordana Blejmar and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ (https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/).
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Genres in Dialogue
08:59 Imagining Space
15:30 Rethinking Agency
21:56 Shameful Monstrosity
26:55 Reading for a Moral
29:09 Disturbing Presence
33:59 Credits
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