The aim of this course is to explore the intersection between two forms of knowledge, practice and discourse - that of literature and that of science - in the Latin American context of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Through the concept of ‘imaginary’ (Baczko, Castoriadis), we will refer not only to the ‘image’, i.e. the purely reproductive gesture of one form of knowledge (science) over another (literature), but also to the heuristic potential of ‘imagination’, i.e. fiction, as an engine for the transformation of society. From a critical point of view, our general objective is to deconstruct the ‘civilisation & barbarism’ antinomy that has structured the collective Latin American social imaginary from independence (19th century) to the present day.
- Teaching coordinator: Galdon Gasco Christian
- Teaching coordinator: Thomas Jean-Baptiste