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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

  1. Hopscotch! Time to Play a Different Game

    10/04/2023

    Hopscotch! Time to Play a Different Game

    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 For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    31 min
  2. On Latin American literature

    08/04/2023 · BONUS

    On Latin American literature

    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 #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    38 min
  3. On Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

    08/04/2023 · BONUS

    On Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

    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 #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    34 min
  4. Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on the Force of the Hyperobject

    06/04/2023

    Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on the Force of the Hyperobject

    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 For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    26 min
  5. Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation

    05/04/2023 · BONUS

    Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation

    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 #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    29 min
  6. The Taiga Syndrome: Cristina Rivera Garza in a World without Refuge

    04/04/2023

    The Taiga Syndrome: Cristina Rivera Garza in a World without Refuge

    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 For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    30 min
  7. On Rita Indiana, Papi

    31/03/2023 · BONUS

    On Rita Indiana, Papi

    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 #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    33 min
  8. Papi: Rita Indiana on Role-Playing, Excess, and Loss

    30/03/2023

    Papi: Rita Indiana on Role-Playing, Excess, and Loss

    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 For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/ #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    32 min
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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

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    Jon Beasley-Murray
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