Distinguished lecturers teach Latin American narrative course
Friday, February 15th, 2008 (All day) - Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 (All day)
The certificate course Latin American Narrative in the 21st Century: Local stages, global horizons and voices of change, which was run from February 15 to March 12, 2008, as part of the academic program of the University of Guadalajara at Los Angeles (UDGLA), was taught by a group of prominent lecturers.
Coordinated by the writer and critic Julio Ortega, the course was taught with the objectives of providing an overview of new trends in Latin American literature, discussing literature as a fundamental component of Hispanic expression, its culture and history and promoting literary creation through writing workshops.
The course was divided into four basic modules which provided participants (university students, graduates and professionals) with a broad view of new and innovative Latin American works, as well as the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
The first module dealt with new genres and forms of a society in conflict: narratives about violence, new realism, crime novels, and hybrid genres. Texts were by several authors, including Diamela Eltit, Alonso Cueto, Santiago Roncagliolo, Xavier Velasco and Élmer Mendoza.
Luis Martín Ulloa, a Doctor in Letters from the University of Guadalajara and researcher in the Department of Literary Studies, was the lecturer for this module.
The second module was dedicated to trans-border narratives. Participants read works that dealt with the notion of borders and trans-border actions, as well as new ways of breaking with norms and textual codes. Authors who were read during this module included Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Ángel Palou, César Aira, Rodrigo Fresán and Edmundo Paz Soldán.
This module was taught by Dr. Dulce María Zúñiga, director of the University of Guadalajara’s Literary Studies Department and academic coordinator of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar lecture series.
The third module covered narrators and technologies of the 21st century and was taught by Agustín Geonaga, University of Guadalajara professor, journalist, translator and publisher. It offered an analysis of new forms of writing in this age of telecommunications and global accessibility, including blogs, comics, cinema, the literary market, author rights as well as the role of workshops and narratives in micro-communities. Texts by the following authors were read: Alberto Fuguet, Naief Yehya, Claudia Ulloa, Mario Bellatín, Alberto Briceño and Antonio José Ponte.
The certificate course concluded with a fiction writing workshop led by Diamela Eltit, a Chilean writer and professor of Spanish who has received national and international honors for her literary work.
Coordinated by the writer and critic Julio Ortega, the course was taught with the objectives of providing an overview of new trends in Latin American literature, discussing literature as a fundamental component of Hispanic expression, its culture and history and promoting literary creation through writing workshops.
The course was divided into four basic modules which provided participants (university students, graduates and professionals) with a broad view of new and innovative Latin American works, as well as the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
The first module dealt with new genres and forms of a society in conflict: narratives about violence, new realism, crime novels, and hybrid genres. Texts were by several authors, including Diamela Eltit, Alonso Cueto, Santiago Roncagliolo, Xavier Velasco and Élmer Mendoza.
Luis Martín Ulloa, a Doctor in Letters from the University of Guadalajara and researcher in the Department of Literary Studies, was the lecturer for this module.
The second module was dedicated to trans-border narratives. Participants read works that dealt with the notion of borders and trans-border actions, as well as new ways of breaking with norms and textual codes. Authors who were read during this module included Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Ángel Palou, César Aira, Rodrigo Fresán and Edmundo Paz Soldán.
This module was taught by Dr. Dulce María Zúñiga, director of the University of Guadalajara’s Literary Studies Department and academic coordinator of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar lecture series.
The third module covered narrators and technologies of the 21st century and was taught by Agustín Geonaga, University of Guadalajara professor, journalist, translator and publisher. It offered an analysis of new forms of writing in this age of telecommunications and global accessibility, including blogs, comics, cinema, the literary market, author rights as well as the role of workshops and narratives in micro-communities. Texts by the following authors were read: Alberto Fuguet, Naief Yehya, Claudia Ulloa, Mario Bellatín, Alberto Briceño and Antonio José Ponte.
The certificate course concluded with a fiction writing workshop led by Diamela Eltit, a Chilean writer and professor of Spanish who has received national and international honors for her literary work.