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Cultures of Spanish-Speaking Countries I

A.Y. 2021/2022
6
Max ECTS
40
Overall hours
SSD
L-LIN/06
Language
Spanish
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the critical tools that allow them to deepen their knowledge of the different socio-cultural dynamics of Latin American modernity. The use of the various textual and audiovisual materials should foster critical thinking, while stimulating the delineation of autonomous research processes.
Expected learning outcomes
Consolidation of knowledge of multiple cultural aspects - literature, visual art, music - featuring the contemporary Latin America scene. The application of the theory and practice of Cultural Studies in socio-historical and linguistic contexts, allows to develop an autonomous research paths in specific aspects of the Hispanic modernity.

Lesson period: First semester

Lessons timetable

Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi

Exams calendar

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Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Bajini Irina Matilde Maria
Lesson period
First semester
The lessons will be held in presence, except for unforeseen events.
Course syllabus
The course is divided into two parts. The first deals with the socio-cultural phenomenon of the "cartoneras" publishing houses of the new millennium, born in Argentina and developed in different Latin American contexts. The second part includes an editorial workshop with translation, curation and "cartonera" realization of some contemporary Hispanic American texts.
Prerequisites for admission
The student, in addition to an adequate domination of oral and written Spanish and an awareness of his American variants, must know how to orientate himself in the Latin American mosaic and possess adequate historical-cultural information related to the territories under study.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, cooperative learning, online discussions, online activities, editorial laboratory of translation, editing and binding.
Teaching Resources
Maria Seoane, "Argentina paese dei paradossi", Bari, Laterza, 2004.
Juan Ignacio Piovani, Agustín Salvia (eds.) "La Argentina en el siglo XXI" (Ariel)
Daniel Canosa, "Editoriales cartoneras: el paradigma emancipatorio de los libros cartoneros en contextos de vulnerabilidad social", V Encuentro Internacional de Editoriales Cartoneras, Santiago de Chile/ 29 y 30 septiembre, 1 octubre 2017. Dirección de Bibliotecas Archivos y Museos (DIBAM). Biblioteca de Santiago de Chile (Ariel)
Ksenija Bilbija, "Borrón y cuento nuevo: las editoriales cartoneras latinoamericanas", Nueva Sociedad No 230,
noviembre-diciembre de 2010 (Ariel)
Adrián R. Vila, "Ediciones cartoneras latinoamericanas en tiempos de transposición digital", "Revista chilena de literatura", Diciembre 2016, Número 94, 119-143 (Ariel)
Jania Kudaibergen, *Las editoriales cartoneras y los procesos de empoderamiento en la industria creativa mexicana
(Ariel)
Washinton Cucurto, "El gran plan", 2019 (Ariel)
Further selection of texts in Ariel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will consist of an oral interview in Spanish aimed at ascertaining the critical re-elaboration of information and stimuli provided during the lessons and widely present both in the bibliographic material and in the in-depth material uploaded on the Ariel platform. In addition, the student will present and comment on the translation and "cartonera" edition of a short contemporary Hispanic American text.
Everyone must refer to the bibliography reported in the program, to the additional materials uploaded to Ariel and to the content of the lessons, which will be recorded and must be appropriately downloaded.
L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor: Bajini Irina Matilde Maria
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