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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | SPANB239001 |
Course Title | Escribir la naturaleza américa |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Environmental Studies |
Instructor | Martínez Bachrich,Roberto |
Times and Days | MWF 01:10pm-02:00pm
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Room Location | TAYC |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2444 What role does literature play in this age of ecological crisis and natural disasters? How has literature often mediated the relationships between the human and the non-human? How does nature writings in Latin America reflect, problematize and criticize the intense “geological fault” of anthropocentrism? From the earliest days of the exploration and conquest of the American continent, the texts of the Europeans set a repertoire of obsessions in which looking at or imagining nature became a constant. Plants and animals, since then, became a recurring topic. Described first as wonders or horrors, with time they will be scientifically and politically loaded. By the 20th century, the fictionalization of plants and animals has been one of the central concerns of Latin American literature, opening, thus, a fertile ground for textual explorations from the perspective of ecocriticism. This course will analyze the place of plants and animals in Latin American literature: how they reveal the relationships between the human and the environment (the landscape and other non-human life forms). We will explore, then, the place of the zoological and botanical at the heart of some of the literary proposals of many different authors who invite us to think about the multiple tensions between human and non-human, nature and culture, ecology and aesthetics, science and literature.This course will be taught in Spanish. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Inquiry into the Past (IP), Writing Attentive; Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors/Minors |
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