Ximena Briceño
Ximena Briceño
Lecturer in Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Contact:
Pigott Hall 228
650 723 0605
xbriceno@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
by appointmentOVERVIEW:
Ximena Briceño was born in Lima. After studying Latin American and Peninsular literature in the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, she went to Cornell for her M.A. and Ph.D. She works on 20th and 21st centuries Latin American literature. Her current research focuses on contemporary museum narratives and performances from Peru, Argentina and Chile. Her interests include: the dialogue between contemporary art and the literary; the intersections between aesthetics and politics; dramaturgy and performance; visuality; cultural consumption and critical theory. She has published scholarly articles on melodrama, theater, representations and politics of memory, and the discourse of autobiography.
Courses
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ILAC121Spr2012-13
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.
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ILAC264/364Aut2011-12
What visions and images of the Andes circulate in Latin American literature? How are they constructed? How is their value accrued? The course explores the visual economy of the Andes in representative literary texts of the 20th century, vis-à-vis critical discourses about Andean culture. Topics: visual culture and identity, iconography and the word/image tension, nature vs. culture, debates on utopia, indigenismo, mestizaje, and hibridez. Authors may include: Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Martin Chambi, José Carlos Mariátegui, César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raúl Salmón, Aurelio Arturo.
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ILAC161Win2011-12
From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Bolivar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Dario, Marti, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortizar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, García Márquez, Lispector, Bolano.
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ILAC121Spr2011-12
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.
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ILAC142Win2010-11
At the turn of the 19th century, Rubén Darío named 'reino interior' the private area of introspection and imagination favored by modernistas. A source and possibility for artistic production this trope incarnates tensions between individual and social space parochialism and cosmopolitanism. We will consider poetry narrative journals and the visual arts. Authors may include: Delmira Agustini, Rubén Darío, Julián del Casal, Leopoldo Lugones, José Martí, Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, José Enrique Rodó, José Asunción Silva, Abraham Valdelomar. Spanish proficiency required.
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ILAC161Spr2010-11
From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Darío, Martí, Mistral, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, Guillén, Rulfo, Ramos, Arguedas, García Márquez, Lispector, Menchú, Bolaño. Spanish proficiency required. GER:DB-Hum
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ILAC265Spr2010-11
In this course we examine the changing relationship between history memory collection production and consumption in a group of narrative works from 20th and 21st century Argentina. We discuss the role of the museum in the novel¿s imaginary comparing and contrasting the experiences of reading and museum-going. Focusing on the museum in relation to the literary form will allow us to reflect on tensions between the market the canon and the avant-gardes as they appear in a changing cultural economy. Authors include: Fernández Borges Mujica Láinez Piglia Pauls and Kohan.
