Datos Identificativos | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Asignatura | Discurso literario e sociedade nos países de fala inglesa | Código | 613505103 | |||||||||||
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Descriptores | Ciclo | Período | Curso | Tipo | Créditos | |||||||||
Mestrado Oficial | 1º cuadrimestre |
Primeiro | Obrigatoria | 3 | ||||||||||
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Temas | Subtemas |
The course tackles the relations between literature and society, placing special emphasis on the political and socio-historical contexts. |
Likewise, the more relevant ideological and inter-textual relations?and also the main aesthetic aspects?will be considered when analysing and/or discussing literary (con)texts of the English-speaking world. |
1. Introduction: Narratives of the Body | Coco Fusco: Only Skin Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters (Ch. 1-3) Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Dangerous Border-Crossers (22-47) |
2. Narratives of Space | Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Episode One, in Part I: ?Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World?). Fredric Jameson: The Cultures of Globalization (3-21: ?Beyond Eurocentrism?). |
3. Discourses of Abjection | Kathy Acker: Great Expectations (5-36) Julia Kristeva: Powers of Horror (1-31) Judith Butler: Bodies that Matter (Critically Queer and/or Gender is Burning) |
4. Discourses of Violence | Paul Preciado: Countersexual Manifesto Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X Hannah Arendt: On Violence (selection) |
5. Pre-Trauma Dystopias | Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium 1-51 Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (selection) Slavoj Zizek: Welcome to the Desert of the Real |
6. Heterotopic Discourses and the Non City | Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness (selection) Mike Davis: City of Quartz (19-62) David Lynch: Lost Highway David Harvey: Rebel Cities (3-25) |
7. Literary Discourse and Society | Discussion and conclusions |