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Latin American literature in translation. From the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
This podcast is an Open Educational Resource produced at UBC, though it does not claim to speak for or represent the university or its Spanish program.
It is inspired by UBC's strategic plan: "UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible, with expanded creation and dissemination of open educational resources. [. . .] We must redouble our efforts to make sustained progress."
More info at https://span312.arts.ubc.ca
This podcast is an Open Educational Resource produced at UBC, though it does not claim to speak for or represent the university or its Spanish program.
It is inspired by UBC's strategic plan: "UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible, with expanded creation and dissemination of open educational resources. [. . .] We must redouble our efforts to make sustained progress."
More info at https://span312.arts.ubc.ca
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Literature constructs for us scenarios and spaces in which, at least for a time, other habits and customs are in play, and which thus allow us to see that the rules of the everyday games that we play are as arbitrary as any others.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
04:00 Questions
16:06 Seeing and Playing Difference
30:56 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about teaching and reading Latin American literature. With Erin Graff Zivin and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:13 The Canon and Beyond
08:28 Latin America and Beyond
10:37 Images of Latin America
14:20 The Latin American Writer and the Tradition
19:40 Going Beyond Ourselves
22:27 Reading as Misreading
25:55 Inexhaustible Texts
29:54 Good Enough Readings
38:07 Repetition and Learning
37:40 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Samanta Schweblin's novel of uncanny horror on the Pampas, Fever Dream. With Jordana Blejmar and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Genres in Dialogue
08:59 Imagining Space
15:30 Rethinking Agency
21:56 Shameful Monstrosity
26:55 Reading for a Moral
29:09 Disturbing Presence
33:59 Credits
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As with a game we have started that gets out of hand, it can feel that all we can do is look on as events unfold when confronted with the seemingly irresistible force of a hyperobject in motion once a tipping point has been passed.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
06:27 The Chemistry of Anxiety
14:10 Questions
17:56 The Shadow of the Hyperobject
26:03 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome. With Cristina Rivera Garza and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about tone, translation, and escape, among other things.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Distance and Indirect Language
06:01 Tone and Experience
10:55 Mediation and the Archive
16:05 Quotation and Subversion
18:59 Speech and Concealment
22:57 Translation and Communality
26:37 Escape and Vanishing Points
28:30 Credits
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This is the wild west (wild north?) Russian style—or Swedish or Latvian, even Mexican or Argentine, it matters little, as it is the same almost everywhere now that untrammeled extraction reduces and eliminates any refuge a forest may offer, for wolves or for children, or for lovers on the lam.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:37 Beginnings, Endings, and Limits
15:39 Questions
18:26 Forests, Failures, and Low-Level Fear
29:17 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Rita Indiana's novel, Papi. With Arturo Victoriano and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
00:00 Introduction
01:10 A History of Migration
04:00 One Foot Here and Another One There
11:19 The Smell of Success
17:47 The Sounds of Progress
22:13 From Trujillo to Balaguer and Beyond
28:56 Dreams and Reality
33:16 Credits
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In a world in which movies, adverts, music videos, video games, and television all blend and cross-contaminate, new cross-cultural and transnational jargons and slang arise, and new roles to play, to compensate for the increasing inequalities and unbridled violence that are also associated with unregulated markets, be they legal or illegal.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
04:34 Constructing Excess
15:16 Questions
17:47 Loving the Game
32:06 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Chilean Pedro Lemebel's novel, My Tender Matador. With Juan Poblete and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
00:00 Introduction
01:22 Three Approaches to My Tender Matador
02:55 Lemebel's Context
07:35 A Theory of the Novel
14:02 A Politics of the Pose
19:40 An Affective Reconstruction of the 1980s
25:38 The Popular Baroque
30:58 Credits
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We are encouraged to take surfaces or appearances seriously in their own right.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:56 Names, Playacting, and Embellishment
09:44 Questions
14:55 Power, Performance, and Impurity
24:11 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing! With Giannina Braschi and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about language, cosmopolitanism, the collective, and the end of the twentieth century.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:32 Looking from a Distance
02:57 An Aperture in the World
06:49 From Spanish to English
10:01 Invading the North
12:36 Always Cosmopolitan
16:55 A Chorus of Voices
19:25 Yo-Yo
20:58 Waiting for Liberation
23:07 The End of the Twentieth Century
26:50 (Mis)Understanding
30:42 Credits
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Braschi’s novel resists translation both because it is already in translation—and translation cannot be translated—and because it touches on the untranslatable, on the limits of language and meaning.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
06:37 Translation, Movement, and Nonsense
11:11 Questions
16:05 Kairos and the Future Event
26:43 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Roberto Bolaño's post-dictatorship novel, Distant Star. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Crime Fiction and Poetry Workshops
05:04 Correspondence and Investigation
09:44 Collaboration and Conversation
14:48 Violence Explicable and Inexplicable
18:39 Loss and Recovery
22:01 Writing and Reading
25:00 An Expanding Universe
26:43 Credits
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Literature can never forget that it is first and foremost an index of barbarism, and only secondarily (if at all) any kind of recompense or restitution.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
14:31 Art and Atrocity
15:42 Fascism's Contradictions
18:58 Questions
30:24 Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón
34:40 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Rigoberta Menchú's famed but controversial testimonio, I, Rigoberta Menchú. With John Beverley and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Defining Testimonio
08:12 Testimonio's Contexts
12:41 A New Political Subject
18:13 The Culture Wars
23:31 The Politics of Truth
30:33 Testimonio Today
38:50 Credits
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However much we imagine or hope we are in solidarity with her and her struggle, we are reminded that the basis of that solidarity has to be difference and respect. Her struggle is not ours, and never will be.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
10:44 Private Pacts and Public Secrets
19:55 Questions
22:53 Captivation and Betrayal
33:28 Games of Entrapment
42:50 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mario Vargas Llosa's comic novel, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service. With Phil Swanson and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Rethinking Civilization and Barbarism
10:44 The Business of Sex
14:38 A Shift from Left to Right
18:45 Technology and Form
23:18 Ambivalence and Multiple Readings
25:23 The Limits of Machismo
28:29 Credits
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In Vargas Llosa’s world, something is almost always fucked up—a death, a massacre, a marriage, a disappearance—and it is up to him or his characters to find out why and how.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
09:19 Making Fun of Seriousness
10:47 Questions
15:46 Taking Fun Seriously
28:08 Credits
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A conversation for SPAN 312 about Clarice Lispector's last novel, The Hour of the Star. With Sonia Roncador and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:11 The Culmination of a Process
09:56 The Challenge of Unfamiliarity
18:42 The Limits of Realism
27:41 A Compulsion to Care
31:45 The Possibility of Hope
34:42 Credits
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It is about an ethics of writing, about how writing can be true to life, to “a life,” without necessarily laying claim to the truth of that life. It is about the hesitations, affirmations, and disruptive explosions that mark any text as it tries to describe and negotiate the world.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
11:03 A Hesitant Ethics
13:24 Questions
21:33 An Interrupted Consumption
31:06 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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