Narratives of Affect

A growing number of contemporary Latin American novels and films focus on precarious forms of life and narratives of care, beyond the disciplinary discourses of medicine and psychiatry.  This course takes stock of these narratives to explore the literary dimension of care.  Parting from theorizations of affect, we explore varieties of emotions, modes of care, and caring identities, as well as the emphasis on human-animal and human-plant relations. Authors and film directors may include: Mario Bellatin, Alejandro Zambra, Alan Pauls, Sergio Chejchec, Lina Meruane, Diamela Eltit, Mario Cohn, Gaston Dupratt, Lucrecia Martel. Taught in Spanish.