Winter 2013

Span 450 titled  “Oralidad y textualidad en los Andes y Mesoamérica”  promoted a new approach towards two very well known Latin American authors: José María Arguedas and Juan Rulfo. Following the trace of orality, this class intended to reconstruct an intertextual web of knowledge that goes beyond Los ríos profundos (Arguedas) and Pedro Páramo (Rulfo) novels. Within this frame the students had the opportunity to get to know alternative texts (Andean and Mesoamerican textiles, the quechua manuscript Dioses y hombres de Huarochirí and the k’iche’ narrative of the Popol Wuj) and textual practices (traditional oral tales, music performance and dances from both regions).