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Week 10 – Power to the People

I began this unit by listening to John Lennon. It would be inconceivable to read this week’s title and not…

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Week 10: Power to the People

This week I will be focusing on “The Renunciamiento as Compiled from Newsreel and Archival Footage” and “Eva Perón’s Final Response”. What I first noticed was the repeated term “descamisados”, which means the shirtless. However, I had never heard the term used in this context before the speeches of Juan and Eva Peron. A quickContinue reading “Week 10: Power to the People”

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10. Power to the People

10. Power to the People

week 10 lecture (video)

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Week 8: Signs of a Gilded Age

This week offered a necessary introduction to historical figures and intellects of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the 20th century, it would seem that for some nations, the peasants, aboriginals, and workers charged the government’s and administrations with negligence of a supposed liberated society by generation revolutions, strikes, and intellectual thought on the […]

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Week Five: Caudillos Versus the Nation State

I would like to focus this week’s blog post on the Slaughter-house reading because the passage itself was so compelling. To start off, I wanted to mention a detail that stuck out for me. It was the 50 bullocks who were meant to be killed were actually for the the upperclass instead of the the […]

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The Slaughterhouse

For this week’s blog post I want to focus on “The Slaughterhouse” by Esteban Echeverría. The very first thing I noticed about this short piece is how graphic it is, especially when it comes to the scenes of violence and sexual abuse. Echeverria states at the end of the piece that the story is meant […]

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6. Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics

6. Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics

week 6 lecture (video)

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5. Caudillos Versus the Nation State

5. Caudillos Versus the Nation State

week 5 lecture (video)

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The Slaughterhouse

The Slaughterhouse

Jon Beasley-Murray and Alec Dawson on “The Slaughterhouse” (podcast)

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Literature and Politics

Literature and Politics

A conversation with Rita De Grandis

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