PowerPoints

These are the slides used in the preparation of the lecture videos. NB often the videos have more images than are contained in the slides and/or there are other minor differences, as the slides were adjusted during video editing.

  1. The Rules of the Game
  2. Mama Blanca’s Memoirs: Teresa De la Parra and the Plurality of History
  3. The Underdogs: Mariano Azuela, Writing, and Infrapolitics
  4. Cartucho: Nellie Campobello on History through the Eyes of a Child
  5. Twenty Love Poems: Pablo Neruda’s Image of the Writer
  6. Madwomen: Mistral, the Icon, and her Others
  7. Labyrinths: Jorge Luis Borges on Difference and Repetition
  8. The Kingdom of this World: Alejo Carpentier Re-Stages History
  9. Pedro Páramo: Juan Rulfo on Persistence and Transition
  10. One Hundred Years of Solitude I: Gabriel García Márquez on Chance and Order
  11. One Hundred Years of Solitude II: Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Disaster and Excess
  12. Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Comic Anarchy
  13. The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics
  14. I, Rigoberta Menchú: Rigoberta Menchú on Secrets and Lies, Traps and Betrayal
  15. Distant Star: Roberto Bolaño on Aesthetics, Fascism, and Judgement
  16. Yo-Yo Boing! Giannina Braschi on Translation, Temporality, and the Future
  17. My Tender Matador: Pedro Lemebel on Playing the Part
  18. Papi: Rita Indiana on Role-Playing, Excess, and Loss
  19. Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on the Force of the Hyperobject
  20. The Taiga Syndrome: Cristina Rivera Garza in a World without Refuge
  21. Time to Play a Different Game