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Ximena Briceño

Ximena Briceño

Lecturer in Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Contact:

Pigott Hall 228
650 723 0605
xbriceno@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

by appointment

BIO:

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.

ILAC

Courses

  • ILAC
    140
    Migration in 21st Century Latin American Film
    Aut
    2012-13

    Focus on how images and narratives of migration are depicted in recent Latin American film. It compares migration as it takes place within Latin America to migration from Latin America to Europe and to the U.S. We will analyze these films, and their making, in the global context of an evergrowing tension between "inside" and "outside"; we consider how these films represent or explore precariousness and exclusion; visibility and invisibility; racial and gender dynamics; national and social boundaries; new subjectivities and cultural practices. Films include: El niño pez, Bolivia, Ulises, Faustino Mayta visita a su prima, Copacabana, Chico y Rita, Sin nombre, Los que se quedan, Amador, and En la puta calle. Films in Spanish, with English subtitles. Discussions and assignments in Spanish.

  • ILAC
    145
    Poets, Journalists and Collectors: Latin American Modernismo
    Spr
    2012-13

    Discusses the different artistic avatars exercised by Latin American modernistas at the turn of the 19th century in the context of growing capitalism, technological innovation and social transformation. We focus on how modernistas as poets, journalists and collectors explored and transgressed the limits of the individual and his/her situation. We consider topics like cosmopolitanism, dandysm, autonomy of art, and the aesthetic cultivation of the self. Authors include: Delmira Agustini, Rubén Darío, Julián del Casal, Leopoldo Lugones, José Martí, Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, José Enrique Rodó, José Asunción Silva, and Abraham Valdelomar. Spanish proficiency required.

  • ILAC
    345
    Biopolitics and Sovereignity in Andean Culture, 1920-1940
    Win
    2012-13

    What is productive life? How is life aesthetically and politically valued? This course explores the inscription of life in changing political and aesthetic regimes of the Andean South in the turbulent decades of the 1920s-1940s. Based on theories of biopower and soveregnity, we explore topics such as domination, domestication, appropriation, exclusion, facism, solidarity, tellurism, race, mestizaje, and human/nature relations. We will consider poetry, narrative, journals, and the visual arts. Authors include: Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Pablo de Rokha, Alcides Arguedas, Augusto Céspedes, Franz Tamayo, Leopoldo Marechal, Roberto Artl, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, José Carlos Mariátegui, Ciro Alegría, and José María Arguedas. Spanish proficiency required.