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. --- 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" |