Cultures of Spanish-Speaking Countries I
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the critical tools that allow them to deepen their knowledge of the different socio-cultural dynamics of Latin American modernity. The use of the various textual and audiovisual materials should foster critical thinking, while stimulating the delineation of autonomous research processes.
Expected learning outcomes
Consolidation of knowledge of multiple cultural aspects - literature, visual art, music - featuring the contemporary Latin America scene. The application of the theory and practice of Cultural Studies in socio-historical and linguistic contexts, allows to develop an autonomous research paths in specific aspects of the Hispanic modernity.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
The lessons will be held in presence, except for unforeseen events.
Course syllabus
The course is dedicated to the figure of a contemporary Cuban writer, Mirta Yáñez. In the first part, the work will be analyzed in the socio-cultural context of his country. In the second we will deal with the translation of some of the author's texts, which will finally be edited and transformed into handcrafted librettos.
Prerequisites for admission
The student, in addition to an adequate domination of oral and written Spanish and an awareness of his American variants, must know how to orientate himself in the Latin American mosaic and possess adequate historical-cultural information related to the territories under study.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons, cooperative learning, online discussions, online activities, editorial laboratory of translation, editing and binding.
Teaching Resources
Olga Portuondo Zúñiga, "Historia de Cuba con mujeres", Roque Libros, 2022
Mirta Yáñez, "Todos los negros tomamos café", La Habana, Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1976.
Estatuas de sal: cuentistas cubanas contemporáneas : panorama crítico (1959-1995), La Habana, UNION, 1998.
Mirta Yáñez, "Ostinata ferita", Salerno Oèdipus, 2014.
Rogelio Rodríguez Coronel, "La novela de la Revolución Cubana, 1959-1979", La Habana, Letras Cubanas, 1986.
Antonio Lavieri, "Translatio in fabula. La letteratura come pratica teorica del tradurre", Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2007.
Further selection of texts in Ariel.
Mirta Yáñez, "Todos los negros tomamos café", La Habana, Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1976.
Estatuas de sal: cuentistas cubanas contemporáneas : panorama crítico (1959-1995), La Habana, UNION, 1998.
Mirta Yáñez, "Ostinata ferita", Salerno Oèdipus, 2014.
Rogelio Rodríguez Coronel, "La novela de la Revolución Cubana, 1959-1979", La Habana, Letras Cubanas, 1986.
Antonio Lavieri, "Translatio in fabula. La letteratura come pratica teorica del tradurre", Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2007.
Further selection of texts in Ariel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will consist of an oral interview in Spanish aimed at ascertaining the critical re-elaboration of information and stimuli provided during the lessons and widely present both in the bibliographic material and in the in-depth material uploaded on the Ariel platform.
Everyone must refer to the bibliography reported in the program, to the additional materials uploaded to Ariel and to the content of the lessons, which will be recorded and must be appropriately downloaded. They will also have to engage in a theoretical-practical reflection on the translation of a literary text.
Everyone must refer to the bibliography reported in the program, to the additional materials uploaded to Ariel and to the content of the lessons, which will be recorded and must be appropriately downloaded. They will also have to engage in a theoretical-practical reflection on the translation of a literary text.
L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Bajini Irina Matilde Maria
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