HISP 293: Dirty Wars and Democracy - Language Across the Curriculum (Spanish) Section

NOTE: Ésta es la sección en español de HIST 293. (Dirty Wars and Democracy).

Instructores: Patrick O'Connor (Español); Steven Volk (Inglés)

Times: tba

Requisitos: Este curso requiere que los estudiantes completan unas lecturas adicionales en español, asistan regularmente a la sección de discusión en español, y contribuyan con frecuencia a un blog en español. Calificación solamente por P/F.

Date Topic Reading for HIST293 (English) Reading for HISP 293 (Spanish)
Sept 2, 4 Introduction: When the World Goes Mad    
Sept 9, 11 Pre-history, Chile:
The Socialist Challenge
Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism (NY: Oxford University Press), 1989. "Allende Presidente," en Jorge Arrate y Eduardo Rojas, Memoria de la izquierda chilena, Tomo II (Santiago: Javier Vergara Editor, 2003), 15-122. [Blackboard]
Sept 16, 18 Chile: Foundational Years Steve J. Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds. Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), Part I - to pg. 245. General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Camino recorrido, tomo II (Santiago: Tall. Gráf. del Instituto Geográfico Militar de Chile, 1991), 17-38, 53-58, 84-88, 111-118, 145-146, 148-152,166-167, 179-182, 201-204, 215-216, 247-251. [Blackboard]
Sept. 23

Sept 25: Guest lecture, Hiber Conteris (The Revolutionary 1960s in Latin America)

Argentina: The Collapse of Civil Society Martin Edwin Andersen, Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War" (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 23-172. (Blackboard or used copies

Tupamaros, "Tenencia de Documentos," de Tupamaros - Documentos Políticos, pp. 9-22 (1967-1969). Blackboard.

(Si les da la gana, pueden leer además la "Introducción," 1-8. [Blackboard])

Sept. 30 [no class], Oct. 2 Argentina: Foundational Years Marguerite Feitlowitz, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (NY: Oxford University Press, 1999), Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 3-88).  
Oct. 7: Guest lecture, Patrick O'Connor

Oct. 9 [No class]

Uruguay: The Foundational Years Lawrence Weschler, "Liberty," in: A Miracle, A Universe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 83-172. [Blackboard and Print Reserves]

Jeffrey Ryan, "Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay" in Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez, eds., When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. 278-304. [Blackboard and Print Reserves]

Mauricio Rosencof, "On Suffering, Song, and White Horses," and Hiber Conteris, "On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison Life," Saúl Sosnowski and Louise B. Popkin, eds., Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, 1987), pp. 120-132; 190-195. [Blackboard and Print Reserves]

Mauricio Rosencof, "Literatura del calabozo," y Hiber Conteris, "En torno a exilios territoriales y temporales: Destierro y Cárcel," ambos en Saúl Sosnowski, comp., Represión, exilio y democracia: La cultura uruguaya (College Park, MD and Montevideo: Universidad de Maryland and Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 1987), 127-140, 193-199. [Blackboard]

"La influencia de Edgar A. Poe en la obra de Raimundo Arias," Cristina Peri Rossi, Indícios pánicos (Barcelona: Bruguera), 1981. [Blackboard]

Oct 14, 16 The National Security State Alicia Partnoy, The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina, 2nd ed. (Cleis Press), 1998.
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Ariel C. Armony, "Producing and Exporting State Terror: The Case of Argentina," in Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez, eds., When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), 305-331.

Mario Benedetti, Pedro y el Capitán (Santillana USA Publishing Company), 2007. Blackboard or available through Amazon.com for $9.99.

Exposición 'Desaparecidos', en el MamBo, retrata las dictaduras de América Latina

FALL BREAK      
Oct. 28, 30 Narratives of Survival and Catastrophe

Luz Arce, The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile, trans. Stacey Alba Skar (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), parts I & II. NOTE: Begin reading this over Fall Break "El libro de Mariel," (Biografía de una "desaparecida" contada por su hermano) por Miguel Corsi. On-line.

Nov. 4, 6 The Road Out, Chile Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds, Part II.  
Nov. 11, 13 The Road Out, Argentina    
Nov. 18, 20 Reconstructing civil society

Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden (NY: Penguin), 1994. Ariel Dorfman, La muerte y la doncella (NY: Siete Cuentos Editorial), 2001. Blackboard or available through Amazon.com for $14.95.
Nov. 25 Transitional Justice: The Problems of Justice in a World of Terror Naomi Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press), 2006. (pgs. to be assigned) Iván Cepeda Castro y Claudia Girón Ortiz, "Olivido o memoria en las condiciones de solución de conflictos internos," Ko'aga Roñeeta se.iii (1997). On-line.
Dec. 2, 4 Transitional Justice, continued. Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect (pgs. to be assigned)  
Dec. 9, 11 The Lessons of the Dirty Wars at home

Recommended:

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side. The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (New York: Doubleday), 2008.

Also, see Jane Mayer's discussion of torture on the popular Fox TV show, "24"