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Alma Guillermoprieto

Visiting Lecturer of Romance Languages and Literatures (writer) (spring term only

 
Degrees:
Interests:
Selected Publications:
  • Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution (Vintage, 2005).
  • Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America (Vintage, 2002).
  • The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now (Vintage, 1995)
  • Samba (Vintage, 1991)
 

Course taught:

Spanish 193. Being Mexican: The Construction of a National Identity Through Film
Alma Guillermoprieto
Half course (spring term). M., W. at 1.
Using Mexican twentieth-century movies, viewed chronologically from the classic early films to the latest films by young Mexican directors, we will try to understand how Mexicans see themselves how they wish to be seen, and how historical events have changed and shaped that self-image
Note: Conducted in English. Not all the movies shown will have subtitles.
Enrollment: Limited to 15. Permission of the instructor is required.

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Last updated on February 4, 2008