Hopscotch!

Hopscotch!

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Hopscotch! episodes

  • Hopscotch! Time to Play a Different Game

    Literature constructs for us scenarios and spaces in which, at least for a time, other habits and customs are in play, and which thus allow us to see that the rules of the everyday games that we play are as arbitrary as any others.


    By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


    00:00 Introduction

    02:17 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
    04:00 Questions
    16:06 Seeing and Playing Difference
    30:56 Credits


    For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


    #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

    32 min
  • On Latin American literature

    A conversation for SPAN 312 about teaching and reading Latin American literature. With Erin Graff Zivin and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.


    • 00:00 Introduction
    • 01:13 The Canon and Beyond
    • 08:28 Latin America and Beyond
    • 10:37 Images of Latin America
    • 14:20 The Latin American Writer and the Tradition
    • 19:40 Going Beyond Ourselves
    • 22:27 Reading as Misreading
    • 25:55 Inexhaustible Texts
    • 29:54 Good Enough Readings
    • 38:07 Repetition and Learning
    • 37:40 Credits

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      38 min
    • On Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

      A conversation for SPAN 312 about Samanta Schweblin's novel of uncanny horror on the Pampas, Fever Dream. With Jordana Blejmar and Jon Beasley-Murray.

      For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
      00:00 Introduction
      01:03 Genres in Dialogue
      08:59 Imagining Space
      15:30 Rethinking Agency
      21:56 Shameful Monstrosity
      26:55 Reading for a Moral
      29:09 Disturbing Presence
      33:59 Credits
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      35 min
    • Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on the Force of the Hyperobject

      As with a game we have started that gets out of hand, it can feel that all we can do is look on as events unfold when confronted with the seemingly irresistible force of a hyperobject in motion once a tipping point has been passed.


      By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


      00:00 Introduction

      06:27 The Chemistry of Anxiety
      14:10 Questions
      17:56 The Shadow of the Hyperobject
      26:03 Credits


      For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

      27 min
    • Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation

      A conversation for SPAN 312 about Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome. With Cristina Rivera Garza and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about tone, translation, and escape, among other things.


      For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.


      00:00 Introduction

      01:38 Distance and Indirect Language
      06:01 Tone and Experience
      10:55 Mediation and the Archive
      16:05 Quotation and Subversion
      18:59 Speech and Concealment
      22:57 Translation and Communality
      26:37 Escape and Vanishing Points
      28:30 Credits


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      29 min
    • The Taiga Syndrome: Cristina Rivera Garza in a World without Refuge

      This is the wild west (wild north?) Russian style—or Swedish or Latvian, even Mexican or Argentine, it matters little, as it is the same almost everywhere now that untrammeled extraction reduces and eliminates any refuge a forest may offer, for wolves or for children, or for lovers on the lam.


      By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


      00:00 Introduction

      03:37 Beginnings, Endings, and Limits
      15:39 Questions
      18:26 Forests, Failures, and Low-Level Fear
      29:17 Credits


      For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

      30 min
    • On Rita Indiana, Papi

      A conversation for SPAN 312 about Rita Indiana's novel, Papi. With Arturo Victoriano and Jon Beasley-Murray.


      For more details, see ⁠⁠https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      00:00 Introduction

      01:10 A History of Migration
      04:00 One Foot Here and Another One There
      11:19 The Smell of Success
      17:47 The Sounds of Progress
      22:13 From Trujillo to Balaguer and Beyond
      28:56 Dreams and Reality
      33:16 Credits


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      34 min
    • Papi: Rita Indiana on Role-Playing, Excess, and Loss

      In a world in which movies, adverts, music videos, video games, and television all blend and cross-contaminate, new cross-cultural and transnational jargons and slang arise, and new roles to play, to compensate for the increasing inequalities and unbridled violence that are also associated with unregulated markets, be they legal or illegal.


      By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


      00:00 Introduction

      04:34 Constructing Excess
      15:16 Questions
      17:47 Loving the Game
      32:06 Credits


      For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

      33 min
    • On Pedro Lemebel, My Tender Matador

      A conversation for SPAN 312 about Chilean Pedro Lemebel's novel, My Tender Matador. With Juan Poblete and Jon Beasley-Murray.


      For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      00:00 Introduction

      01:22 Three Approaches to My Tender Matador
      02:55 Lemebel's Context
      07:35 A Theory of the Novel
      14:02 A Politics of the Pose
      19:40 An Affective Reconstruction of the 1980s
      25:38 The Popular Baroque
      30:58 Credits


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      32 min
    • My Tender Matador: Pedro Lemebel on Playing the Part

      We are encouraged to take surfaces or appearances seriously in their own right.


      By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


      00:00 Introduction

      02:56 Names, Playacting, and Embellishment
      09:44 Questions
      14:55 Power, Performance, and Impurity
      24:11 Credits


      For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/


      #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

      25 min

    About Hopscotch!

    From the publisher's feed

    Latin American literature in translation. From the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia.