SP30YB: KEY TOPICS IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE 1A (2023-2024)

From Wales to Patagonia and Montevideo to Barcelona. From Czarist Russia to the Pampas and Sandinista Nicaragua to Glasgow. Artists and revolutionaries, exiles and migrants populate the books and films studied in this course. We will examine portrayals of transatlantic travel as a means of reinterpreting some of the most significant political events and cultural debates that have marked Latin America since the 19th century until today. We will focus on books and films that present us with different forms of travel from Latin America to Europe, but also Africa and Asia, and vice versa. Studying biographical and fictional accounts of transatlantic crossovers will allow us to understand Latin American history as implicated in a broader transnational network of people and ideas. We will explore topics such as the Jewish diaspora, the global circulation of cultural forms such as tango, the transatlantic dimension of anarchist and socialist activism, and the transnational flows of capital and workers that characterize our neoliberal contemporaneity. While examining these books and films, we will also explore academic reflections on the scope and methods of Transatlantic Studies, which will allow us to rethink our own position as students and academics interested in studying Latin American culture from the other side of the Atlantic.

• Either European Studies (EU) or Spanish And Latin American Studies (SP)
• Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4
• Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)