Literature, Arts, Media (Hispano-American)

The course offers an in-depth overview of the main cultural productions and practices in the different Latin American contexts, with particular attention to the relationship between aesthetic forms and politics, between texts, literary, artistic and intermedial, and historical-political contexts of reference. The lectures are seminar-based and adopt the interdisciplinary approach of cultural criticism. The aim is to provide highly innovative tools and models for the analysis of artistic, literary and intermedial structures and forms, with particular attention to the problems of intercultural and intersemiotic translation. Given the nature of the teaching, which is part of an international collaborative teaching project in synchronous mode and includes co-teaching presentations of the contexts and main theoretical debates by the lecturers and peer-tutoring laboratory sessions, a good command of Spanish is required.

Knowledge: the student masters the lines of development and the different critical perspectives that allow the interpretation of Latin American cultural, artistic and literary complexity, thanks to the study and interpretation of different textualities (fiction, films and documentaries, works of art and performance, photography...).
Skills: the student acquires specialised skills in the analysis of contemporary Latin American texts and contexts, paying particular attention to artistic and cultural phenomena that intertwine the aesthetic and political dimensions. He/she knows how to frame the different phenomena from a geographical and historical point of view, tracing their specific languages of reference, and uses the terminology of literary and cultural studies with propriety. He/she autonomously recognises the aesthetic value of the main texts, in their structural, stylistic and genre specificities.
Abilities: the student is able to use with propriety the main tools of cultural criticism learned, problematising and integrating them with the most current and innovative approaches of literary and cultural studies. Furthermore, he/she refines communication and re-elaboration skills of the acquired contents, both in written and oral form, learns to work in a group also with the use of multimedia technologies, develops critical spirit and the ability to question traditional theories and methodologies.