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On this page you will find lecture notes/handouts and any available background resources relating to courses I am giving in the current academic year. Notes or lecture summaries will generally be published either just before or immediately after a particular class/lecture.

CONTENTS:

• M.PHIL. PROGRAMMES
  • Theoretical: Seminar paper on the theory of the terms Avant-garde/Modernism/Postmodernism
  • Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Culture: an article of mine on Women's Writing and Dictatorship. See also the resource on Sor Juana below.
  • Topics in Latin American Culture / Latin American Film
    • an article of mine on Colombian Urban Cinema
    • seminar paper "Between Dolls, Vampires, and Cyborgs: Recursive Bodies in Mexican Urban Cinema"
    • seminar paper on representations of violence in Latin American urban cinema
    • two articles on post-dictatorship Argentine cinema: "The Last Snapshots of Modernity" (Solanas and Subiela) and "The Repressed Signifier" (Agresti and Subiela)

• PAPER SP2 (Part IA/IB Introduction to Hispanic Texts)
  • For this paper, please see the SP2 Learning Support Web Site
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
    • Multimedia resource: lecture on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
    • Some video clips from the film Yo, la peor de todas, on the life of Sor Juana  
    • A web site devoted to Sor Juana (includes her collected prose and poetry on-line)
  • Rosario Castellanos (poetry)
    • Lecture outline (forthcoming)

• PAPER SP5 (Part IB Topics in Latin American Culture)
  • For this paper, please see the SP5 Learning Support Web Site
  • Nightmares of the Urban
    • Seminar paper on Mexican urban cinema: Guillermo del Toro's Cronos and Walter Doehner Pecanins' Íntimo terror
  • Labyrinths of Fiction
    • Julio Cortázar: Argentine Literature web site on Cortázar;
      also visit Spanish web site on Cortázar

• PAPER SP9 (Part II Modern Spanish Literature)
  • Metaphors of Exile
    • Esther Tusquets: bibliography and lecture outline
    • Juan Goytisolo: lecture handout (including quotations);
      also, visit Juan Goytisolo's own web site!

• PAPER SP12 (Part II Latin American Literature)
  • For this paper, please see the SP12 Learning Support Web Site
  • Women's Writing, Dictatorship, and Exile
    • Luisa Valenzuela: bibliography and a web resource
    • Cristina Peri Rossi and Marta Traba: an article of mine on these two writers
  • Post-Dictatorship Argentine Cinema
    • An article of mine entitled "The Last Snapshots of Modernity" on Eliseo Subiela's Últimas imágenes del naufragio and Fernando Solanas' Sur
    • An article of mine entitled "The Repressed Signifier" on Alejandro Agresti's Boda secreta and Eliseo Subiela's Hombre mirando al sudeste
  • The Cinematic City
    • An article of mine on Colombian Urban Cinema (from Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 9.2 (1998) - please also see the parent site for this journal)
    • A seminar paper on Víctor Gaviria's film La vendedora de rosas
    • A seminar paper on representations of violence in Latin American urban cinema (Pizza, birra, faso; La virgen de los sicarios; Amores perros)