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Facultade de Filoloxía
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Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019)
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  Discurso literario e sociedade nos países de fala inglesa
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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
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