HISTORY OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN CULTURES

The teaching il part of the teaching courses characterizing the degree course of "Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences" and aims to provide students with methodological tools in the Latin American literary and cultural context. The teaching is included in the three curricula present in the course of study, that are the literary philological, the international political and language sciences.

The course has the following objectives:
1) to develop cultural and literary abilities in the Hispanic-American context, as well as to understand literary and essay texts in the field of reference;
2) to apply the knowledge and understanding skills to the texts that will be analyzed in the classroom, and to develop the ability to elaborate critical ideas in the field of study;
3) to elaborate autonomous judgments, including reflection on social, critical and literary issues in the Hispanic American context;
4) to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non specialists;
5) to develop the learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

The prerequisites to access the course are a good knowledge of the formal register, written and oral, of the Italian language.

The course "Latin America: the history of an invention" will trace the broad outlines of the historical context underlying the cultural evolution of Latin American productions from the sixteenth to twenty-first century, in its contradictory relationships of dependence and emancipation from the European context. The study of the salient features of the great aesthetic-literary currents and poetic forms, narratives and theatrical in their evolution will be addressed through the presentation of the authors and the analysis of the works of particular importance. The reading in spanish language and the analysis of parts taken from the planned works and anthological passages are scheduled.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Antologia di testi: Gabriel García Márquez, Darcy Ribeiro, Cristóbal Colón, Bartolomé Las Casas, Hernán Cortés, Cabeza de Vaca, El Inca Garcilaso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rosario Castellanos, Fernando Ortiz, Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortázar, Mario Benedetti, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela, Rigoberta Menchu, Rosario Ferré.
-Belli, Gioconda, La donna abitata, Roma, Edizioni E/O, 1999.
-Alejo Carpentier, Concierto barroco.
-José María Arguedas, Los ríos profundos.
-Gabriel García Márquez, El general en su laberinto.
-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Beya.
-Mateo-Sagasta, Alfonso, Mala hoja.
-Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos/L’oblio che saremo
-Mylene Fernández, La esquina del mundo, 2011.

CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Perassi, Emilia e Scarabelli, Laura (a cura di), Itinerari di cultura ispanoamericana; Ritorno alle origini e ritorno delle origini, Torino, UTET, 2011;
-Antonio Cornejo Polar, Escribir en el aire. Ensayo sobre la heterogeneidad socio- cultural en las literaturas andinas.
-Walter D. Mignolo, La idea de América Latina. la herida colonial y la opción decolonial. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, 2007.

Any edition of the proposed texts is approved.

The exam consists of an interview mainly in Spanish and will verify the contents of the form, the knowledge of the works studied with the support of the critical texts, as well as the historical and literary knowledge of centuries addressed (issues, evolutionary lines, main authors).

The teaching methods used will be frontal lessons mainly in Spanish, divided into two parts:
1) presentation of the author under study;
2) reading and analysis of the texts proposed in the bibliography.

Students are required to participate in the initiatives organized by Latin American chair and which will be given news in class.

13-14 sept 2021: Convegno internazionale “Diaspore. Del Mediterráneo a América Latina. Arte y literatura en las migraciones”.
20-21 sept 2021: Convegno internazionale “Diaspore. Del Mediterráneo a América Latina. Arte y literatura en las migraciones”.
12 oct 2021: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Valeria Luiselli
13 otct 2021: L’Altro sono io. Maratona di letture migranti
19 oct 2021: Presentazione del libro Puertas di María Cecilia Graña
26 oct 2021: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Jimena Néspolo
9 nov: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Alia Trabucco Zerán
23 nov: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Mylene Fernández
25-26 nov 2021: Il tempo delle donne. Un tempo per tutti. Giornata internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne
7 dec: Charlando con las escritoras. Diálogos sobre las literaturas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Incontro con Guadalupe Nettel
9 dec 2021: Conferenza di Elide Pittarello: “Héctor Abad Faciolince: trauma, debito, memoria”

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development