Lecture Programme

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WEEKS 1-6: Assoc-Prof. Christine Arkinstall

Week 1 (1 March):

Please note that in Week 1, there will be 3 lectures (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday), given that there will be no Friday tutorial.

Tuesday, 2 March:
Introduction to course. 
Introduction to García Lorca’s La casa de  Bernarda Alba: Censorship, Surveillance and Power.  

Thursday, 4 March/Friday, 5 March:
García Lorca cont. Patriarchal Structures in La casa de Bernarda Alba.

                      

Week 2 (8 March):

Tuesday, 9 March:
García Lorca cont.  Class and Class Conflict.

Thursday, 11 March:
García Lorca cont.  Staging La casa de Bernarda Alba.

 

Week 3 (15 March):

Tuesday, 16 March:
Mercè Rodoreda’s  La plaza del Diamante: Placing the Subject.  

Thursday, 18 March:
Rodoreda cont. Social criticism in La plaza.

 

Week 4 (22 March):

Tuesday, 23 March:
Rodoreda cont.:  Representations of War in La plaza. 

Thursday, 25 March:
Rodoreda cont.: Constructing the Nation in La plaza.

 

Week 5 (29 March):

Tuesday, 30 March:
Ángela Figuera.  Introduction and Maternal Politics in Spain.

Thursday, 1 April:
Figuera cont.  History, Trauma and Testimony.        

 

Week 6 (5 April):

Tuesday, 6 April:
Figuera cont. 

Thursday, 8 April:
Tutorial presentations.

    

MID-SEMESTER BREAK: 9-25 APRIL

 

WEEKS 7-12: Dr. Wendy-Llyn Zaza

 

Week 7 (26 April):

Tuesday, 27 April:
Introduction: From Dictatorship to Democracy. 

Thursday, 29 April:
Paloma Pedrero’s La isla amarilla.  Reading the Dramatic Text.

 

Week 8 (3 May):

Tuesday, 4 May:
Pedrero cont.  Culture. 

Thursday, 6 May:
Pedrero cont.  Parody.

       

Week 9 (10 May):

Tuesday, 11 May:
Eva Hibernia’s  Los días perdidos. New Horizons. 

Thursday, 13 May:
Hibernia cont.  Reading the Dramatic Text.

 

Week 10 (17 May):

Tuesday, 18 May:
Hibernia cont.  Politics of War. 

Thursday, 20 May:
Hibernia cont. Representations of Death.

 

Week 11 (24 May):

Tuesday, 25 May:
Cuentos de las dos orillas.  
The Maghreb/Spain: An Introduction.     

Thursday, 27 May:
Cuentos cont.
Rewriting History: “La quema de los barcos” (Miloudi Chaghmoum) and “Tariq, aquel que no conquistó al-Andalus” (Mustafa Al-Misnawi).

 

Week 12 (31 May):

Tuesday, 1 June:
Cuentos cont. 
Rosa Regàs: “El molino de viento.”  

Thursday, 3 June:
Cuentos cont.
Conclusion: The End of History?