Topics in Cultural Studies (450-0-1)
Topic
Amerindian Heterochronies in Contemporary Latin Am
Instructors
Florencia Garramuno
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-435: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
Amerindian Heterochronies in Contemporary Latin American Cultures
Contemporary Latin American cultural practices have been profoundly permeated by Amerindian imaginaries, wisdom, and ways of knowing and doing. These contemporary Amerindian practices and the presence of ancestral Amerindian knowledge in other contemporary Latin American practices interrupt the linearity of a conception of culture, challenge totalizing universals, dispute systems of meaning, and compel us to rethink what we understand today as contemporary Latin American cultures. This course seeks to interrogate the knots of these Amerindian practices and knowledges in and with contemporary Latin American culture. It will analyze practices produced by artists who perceive themselves as Amerindian and how Amerindian practices and knowledge, beyond their authors and producers, appear as a vector of rebellious forces and knots of resistance.
Class Materials (Required)
- Mary Lous Pratt, Planetary Longings. Durham, Duke University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781478018292 (paperback)
- James Clifford, Returns. Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, Harvard University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-674-72492-1
- Digital catalog of the 34th São Paulo Biennial. Available in https://issuu.com/bienal/docs/34bsp_tenteio_en
Week 3. Metamorphic Makunaiman.
- Jaider Esbell, "Makunaimã, my grandfather in me". En Iluminuras, Porto Alegre, v. 19, n. 46, p. 11-39, jan/jul, 2018.
- AA. VV. Makunaimã, the myth through time. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Elefante. ISBN 9788593115349
-Jaider Esbell. Terreiro de Makunaima - myths, legends and stories in experiences. Belém: Cromos, 2012. ISBN 9788564067318.
- Daiara Tukano. Available in https://www.daiaratukano.com/
- Lygia Pape. Tupinambá. Available in https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/24663-lygia-pape-tupinamba/
- Elicura Chiauiliaf. Confidential message to Chileans. Santiago, LOM, 1999. ISBN 956-282-208-7
- Jaime Luis Huenún. Mandelstam Street and other apocryphal territories. ISBN: 9789562891424
- Daniela Catrileo. Florid War. Santiago, Del aire, 2018. ISBN: 978-956-9038-34-1
- Elvira Hernandez. State of siege. Santiago, Universidad Diego Portales. ISBN: 978-956-314-475-8
- Galo Ghigliotto, The Museum of the Mist. Santiago, Laurel, 2019. ISBN: 9789569450419.
- Mónica Millán. Baroque Aó Po'i. Available in https://www.artsy.net/show/w-g aleria-1-barroco-ao-poi?sort=partner_show_position
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: Please contact the department of Spanish & Portuguese to request a permission number, spanish-portuguese@northwestern.edu.