Latin American Literature 3
A.Y. 2026/2027
Learning objectives
The course offers a deepening of the main aspects and problems of contemporary Hispanic American literature, through the analysis, in a historical-cultural perspective, of genres, movements and styles. The aim is to provide the necessary skills to allow students to interpret comparatively complex literary phenomena of the contemporary world, deepening the thematic, structural, stylistic components in order to achieve an understanding of the underlying symbolic constructs.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: the student possesses an advanced critical-interpretative ability of the main reference texts of contemporary Hispanic American literature, also dominates the main critical theories and methodologies of the discipline. Applied skills: the student is able to recognize the literary value of a work and to return it in complete autonomy, identifying its historical and social implications and identifying its main formal and stylistic characteristics, through the methodologies and tools of literary analysis acquired. It is also capable of acquiring and reworking the acquired disciplinary contents in complete autonomy and with a critical spirit.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Figurations of the Body and Their Textualities
What resources or rhetorical devices does an author employ to narrate their reality through the body conceived as an archive or a memory? Building on this question, this course focuses on the analysis of literary texts conceived as a stage where bodily strategies emerge—the deployment of the five senses, a repository of emotions and affections, and physical-sensory mobility across spaces and times—that shape the management of life and relational practices. To what extent does the text-body become a material medium for self-declaration and self-expression in contexts marked by violence, but also by affirmative practices? How do authors construct themselves as subjectivities within the body of the text? The purpose of the course is to provide students with readings and critical discussions centered on these questions, in both poetry and prose.
Authors to be studied include (provisional corpus):
Arroyo, Yolanda. Las negras. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Balam, Rodrigo. Libro centroamericano de los muertos. FCE, 2018.
Chávez, Rosa. Espíritu del camino / Rajawal ri b'e. Poesía reunida (2005-2024). Catafixia Editorial, 2025.
García, Pablo. Canto palabra de una pareja de muertos. F&G Editores, 2009.
Goldberg, Jacqueline. El cuarto de los temblores. Oscar Todtmann editores, 2018.
Halfon, Eduardo. Tarántula. Libros del Asteroide, 2024.
Herrera, Yuri. Trabajos del reino. Periférica, 2010
Moscoso, Mafe. Kotopaxi. Sudakasa Ediciones, 2025.
Rivera Garza, Cristina. Terrestre. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Salamanca, Elena. La familia o el olvido. Kalina, 2017.
Silva Bernaschina, Tamara. Desastres naturales. Estuario, 2023.
Trías, Fernanda. El monte de las furias. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Uribe, Sara. Antígona González. Sur+ ediciones, 2012.
What resources or rhetorical devices does an author employ to narrate their reality through the body conceived as an archive or a memory? Building on this question, this course focuses on the analysis of literary texts conceived as a stage where bodily strategies emerge—the deployment of the five senses, a repository of emotions and affections, and physical-sensory mobility across spaces and times—that shape the management of life and relational practices. To what extent does the text-body become a material medium for self-declaration and self-expression in contexts marked by violence, but also by affirmative practices? How do authors construct themselves as subjectivities within the body of the text? The purpose of the course is to provide students with readings and critical discussions centered on these questions, in both poetry and prose.
Authors to be studied include (provisional corpus):
Arroyo, Yolanda. Las negras. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Balam, Rodrigo. Libro centroamericano de los muertos. FCE, 2018.
Chávez, Rosa. Espíritu del camino / Rajawal ri b'e. Poesía reunida (2005-2024). Catafixia Editorial, 2025.
García, Pablo. Canto palabra de una pareja de muertos. F&G Editores, 2009.
Goldberg, Jacqueline. El cuarto de los temblores. Oscar Todtmann editores, 2018.
Halfon, Eduardo. Tarántula. Libros del Asteroide, 2024.
Herrera, Yuri. Trabajos del reino. Periférica, 2010
Moscoso, Mafe. Kotopaxi. Sudakasa Ediciones, 2025.
Rivera Garza, Cristina. Terrestre. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Salamanca, Elena. La familia o el olvido. Kalina, 2017.
Silva Bernaschina, Tamara. Desastres naturales. Estuario, 2023.
Trías, Fernanda. El monte de las furias. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2025.
Uribe, Sara. Antígona González. Sur+ ediciones, 2012.
Prerequisites for admission
The course is conducted entirely in Spanish. The materials and bibliography for the exams will also be in Spanish and require knowledge of literary history, terminology and critical analysis acquired in previous courses (Spanish American Literatures 1 and 2).
Teaching methods
The course adopts the following teaching methods: frontal lectures; readings and commentary on the works in the program; seminar lessons.
Teaching Resources
Theoretical Bibliography
Bulo, Valentina. Materialidad y afectividad de los cuerpos. Editorial USACH/Colección Idea, 2022.
Domínguez, Zaradat, "Cuerpo y texto. Reflexiones en torno a la teoría literaria de Hélène Cixous". Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS, Vol. 1, No. 21 (2019), pp. 304-322.
Parrini, Rodrigo. "Memorias del cuerpo. Cuerpo, memoria y olvido", en Lucía Rayas y Luz Maceira (eds.), Subversiones. Memoria social y género. Ataduras y reflexiones. Ciudad de México, INAH, 2011, pp. 323-343.
Torras, Meri, "El delito del cuerpo. De la evidencia del cuerpo al cuerpo en evidencia", en Meri Torras (ed.). Cuerpo e identidad I. Barcelona: Ediciones UAB, 2007.
Bulo, Valentina. Materialidad y afectividad de los cuerpos. Editorial USACH/Colección Idea, 2022.
Domínguez, Zaradat, "Cuerpo y texto. Reflexiones en torno a la teoría literaria de Hélène Cixous". Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS, Vol. 1, No. 21 (2019), pp. 304-322.
Parrini, Rodrigo. "Memorias del cuerpo. Cuerpo, memoria y olvido", en Lucía Rayas y Luz Maceira (eds.), Subversiones. Memoria social y género. Ataduras y reflexiones. Ciudad de México, INAH, 2011, pp. 323-343.
Torras, Meri, "El delito del cuerpo. De la evidencia del cuerpo al cuerpo en evidencia", en Meri Torras (ed.). Cuerpo e identidad I. Barcelona: Ediciones UAB, 2007.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of an individual interview, which includes questions posed by the lecturer, interaction between lecturer and student and the analysis and commentary of one or more excerpts from the works on the programme. The interview will take place in Spanish or Italian. The interview aims to verify the following:
- the ability to contextualise authors and works
- the ability to comment on and analyse the text
- accuracy in the use of specific terminology and ability in exposition
- the capacity for critical and personal reflection on the themes proposed
- linguistic skills
The final grade is expressed in thirtieths, and the student is entitled to refuse it (in which case it will be recorded as "withdrawn").
For attending students, in itinere tests will be introduced at the conclusion of the various modules. The nature of the tests and the evaluation grid will be communicated during the first lesson of the course, which will be recorded.
Other informations:
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to contact the course lecturer in good time.
Examination arrangements for students with disabilities and/or DSA must be agreed with the lecturer, in agreement with the relevant office.
- the ability to contextualise authors and works
- the ability to comment on and analyse the text
- accuracy in the use of specific terminology and ability in exposition
- the capacity for critical and personal reflection on the themes proposed
- linguistic skills
The final grade is expressed in thirtieths, and the student is entitled to refuse it (in which case it will be recorded as "withdrawn").
For attending students, in itinere tests will be introduced at the conclusion of the various modules. The nature of the tests and the evaluation grid will be communicated during the first lesson of the course, which will be recorded.
Other informations:
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to contact the course lecturer in good time.
Examination arrangements for students with disabilities and/or DSA must be agreed with the lecturer, in agreement with the relevant office.
L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Pleitez Vela Tania Raquel
Professor(s)