Drugs, Literatures and Visual Cultures in Latin America

3–5 credits · Undergraduate

This course aims to study the visibility of the drug object in some fin-de-siècle (19th and 20th centuries) Latin American literary practices, magazines, and journals of the time. Through the examination of this corpus of texts and images, we will discuss the idea of the cultural, geographical, social, sensorial crossings or borders and its critical connections with a literary narrative where the ethnographic journey (within the city or on the geopolitical boundaries of the nation) and the exploration of the limits of sensitivity are intertwined. In the same way, this course will study the different aspects of visual culture related to the representation of drugs in order to reposit images and texts in a dynamic cultural and sensory border and thus try to shake the narcographic maps of modernism.T his course will be taught in Spanish. This will be taught by visiting Professor Contreras.