230355 Poetics of Ruins (S) (SoSe 2015)

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“The ruins of Plantations have affected American cultures all around.”

La frase de Eduard Glissant marca una de las múltiples y diversas perspectivas hacia las ruinas en las culturas de las Americas. Pero logra reunir ya la idea de las ruinas como espacios concretos de cambios históricos, así como también su caracter inmaterial. El seminario propone una mirada hacia los diversos enfoques literarios, documentales y fotográficos de las historias, narrativas y mitologías de ruinas en el continente. Así intentaremos acercarnos a posibles poéticas de ruinas entre manifestaciones de lo maravilloso y lo apocalíptico para también reflexionar sobre el efecto e impacto que se manifiestan en las expresiones culturales mismas.

Eduardo Glissant´s vision of the plantation past of the Americas emphasizes one of the multiple perspectives on ruins in the history of the Americas. But it is also useful to include within the ruins as concrete space of historical changes, their immaterial character. The course looks at diverse literary, documentary and photographic conceptions which have shaped the histories, narratives and mythologies of ruins in the Americas. Therefore we try to approach possible poetics of ruins in-between manifestations of the marvelous and the apocalyptic with a view to reflect the impacts and effects within the cultural expressions to be observed.

Lecturas y materiales propuestos para las sesiones / Proposed readings and materials: Pablo Neruda, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Cormac McCarthy, Diamela Eltit, Jorge Luis Borges; Detriot, ruins of a city (Michel Chanan), Early American Photography. etc...

El seminario está concebido en castellano. A lo largo del semestre el idioma de textos cambiará entre el castellano y el inglés y de ahí también existe la posibilidad de cambiar entre ambos idiomas durante las presentaciones y discuisones en clase.

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weekly Fr 12.00-14.00 X-E1-201 07.04.-17.07.2015
not on: 5/1/15
weekly Fr 14-16 X-E0-210 17.04.-19.06.2015
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23-ANG-M-AngHM3_IAS Media and the Processes of Culture / Los medios y los procesos de la cultura "Cultural Communication" oder "Mediating Cultures" Study requirement
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Teoría e historia de los medios en América Latina Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS5 Literaturas y culturas latinoamericanas Estudios culturales latinoamericanos Study requirement
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Literatura latinoamericana en su contexto histórico-social Study requirement
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Vertiefungsseminar "Literaturas y culturas latinoamericanas" oder "Estudios culturales latinoamericanos" Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS6 Advanced Studies of Literatures and Cultures of the Americas / Estudios avanzados de literaturas y culturas de las Américas "Literaturas y culturas iberoamericanas" oder "Estudios culturales latinoamericanos" Study requirement
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NorthAmerican Literatures in Context Study requirement
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Literaturwissenschaft / Master (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) MaLit5c; MaLit4d    

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