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Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, Davis Humanities Institute, Cultural Studies in the Americas Research Cluster
present
Optics of Postmemory in Latin America
a lecture series
Friday, February 28, 2014
3:30 p.m. Sproul 912
Héctor Hoyos (Stanford University)
“Obsolescencia y nostalgia en Alejandro Zambra”
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
4:00 p.m. Olson 53A
Una conversación con Alejandro Zambra (Chilean novelist)
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
4:00 p.m. Sproul 912
Leonor Arfuch (University of Buenos Aires)
“Infancia y dictadura: ficciones autobiográficas”
These three events (in Spanish) will explore the question of how younger generations of artists are grappling with the legacies and memories of dictatorships that took place in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s.
Héctor Hoyos is assistant professor of Spanish at Stanford University and author of the forthcoming Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel.
Alejandro Zambra is a highly acclaimed Chilean novelist and author of Bonsái (2006), La vida privada de los árboles (2007), Formas de volver a casa (2011) and Mis documentos (2014).
Leonor Arfuch is professor at the University of Buenos Aires where she is Director of Research on Cultural Studies at the Instituto Gino Germani. Among her many books are El espacio biográfico: dilemas de la subjetividad contemporánea (2002) and Memoria y autobiografía: exploraciones en los límites (2013).