Prof. Roberto González Echevarría Department of Spanish and Portuguese Department of Comparative Literature Office hours: Fridays 11-1pm Office: 229, 82-90 Wall Street The Jungle Books SPAN393/LIT420 Spring 2016 2.30-3.45 T, Th
Description: Journeys to the jungle in poetry, narrative fiction, autobiography, anthropology, travel literature and popular culture, and their relation to European imperialism. The course will consider the origins and evolution of the natural and social sciences as reflected in literature as well as in popular culture, and the emergence of media myths such as Tarzan and Indiana Jones. Works by Charles Baudelaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, André Malraux, Alejo Carpentier, W.H. Hudson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Requirements: Class attendance and participation; two 5 to 7 page papers, one before midterm, the other at the end of the course, and a 10 page final paper. The topics for all papers are to be vetted by professor. Due dates: first paper, February 25; second paper, April 28; final paper on the date of the scheduled final exam.
Books:
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions (1904)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lost World (1912)
William Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1914)
André Malraux, Royal Way (1930)
Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps (1953)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques (1955)
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Story Teller (1987)
Editions: (Available at Barnes and Noble)
The lost steps. University of Minnessota Press $18.95
The royal ways or the way of King PDF in V2 server González Echevarría 2
Heart of Darkness. Norton 21.95
Tristes Tropiques. Penguin 19.95
The lost world. Oxford U Press 10.95
Green mansions. Overlook Press 12.95
Tarzan of the Apes. Signet 5.95
The Story Teller. Picador $16.00.
Films: “The Lost World,” “Tarzan of the Apes,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
CALENDAR
1. January 19 Introduction: Borges, “The Ethnographer.” Baudelaire, “Le voyage.”
2. 21 Conrad
3. 26-28 Conrad
4. 28 Hudson
5. February 2 Conan Doyle
4 Burroughs
6. 9-11 Burroughs
7. 16-18 Malraux
8. 23-25 Malraux
9. March 1-3 Carpentier
10. 8-10 Carpentier
SPRING BREAK
11. 29-31 Carpentier
12. April 5-7 Lévi-Strauss González Echevarría 3
13. 12-14 Lévi-Strauss 19-21 Vargas Llosa
26-28 Finale
Bibliography
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+Rolena Adorno and Charles Patrick Pautz, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
+Carlos Alonso, The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
+Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Chris Bongie, Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siecle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Patrick Bratingler, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism,1830-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Rosalba Campra, La selva en el damero: espacio literario y espacio urbano en América Latina. Pisa: Giardini Editori, 1989.
Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
+James Clifford and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Howard Davies, "The Lost World: Conan Doyle and the Suspense of Evolution," in Nineteenth-Century Suspense: From Poe to Conan Doyle, ed. Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty, Jane Gibb, and Keith Shand (London: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 107-19.
Adrian Desmond, Archetypes and Ancestors: Paleontology in Victorian London. London: Blond and Briggs, 1982.
Arturo Echavarría, "La confluencia de las aguas: la geografía como configuración del tiempo en Los pasos perdidos de Carpentier y Heart of Darkness de Conrad," Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 35, no. 2 (1987), pp. 531-41.
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Ottmar Ette, Literature on the Move, tr. Katharina Vester. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2003.
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1973.
------, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
+------, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
+Roberto González Echevarría, Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1977. Revised and expanded paperback edition, The University of Texas Press, 1990.
+------, Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Paperback Duke University Press, 1998.
------, "Canaima y los libros de la selva," Casa de las Américas, No. 201 (1995), pp. 22-31; Canaima and the Jungle Books," in Rómulo Gallegos, Canaima, tr. Will Kirkland, critical edition coordinated by Michael J. Doudoroff (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), pp. 331-48.
Martin Green, Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
John Hemming, Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
+Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. New York: International Publishers, 1985.
+Lydia de León Hazera, La novela de la selva hispanoamericana: nacimiento, transformación y desarrollo. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1971.
Pericles Lewis, Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Chapter on Heart of Darkness
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Mercedes López Baralt, "Los pasos encontrados de Lévi-Strauss y Alejo Carpentier: literatura y antropología en el siglo veinte," La Revista del Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, no. 7 (1988), pp. 81-92.
Pierre Nordon, Conan Doyle: A Bibliography. London; John Murray, 1966.
+Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
Susan E. Place, ed. Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition. Wilminton, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1993.
+Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992.
Richard Price and Sally Price, Equatoria. New York: Routledge, 1992.
+Charlotte Rogers, Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.
Marshall Sahlins, Islands of History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Brian Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950. London: Fourth Estate 1985.
George W. Stocking, Jr. Victorian Anthropology. London: The Free Press, 1987.
+Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing Imperial Administration. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Sara Suleri, The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Chapter on Conrad.
+Michael Taussig, Shamanism: A Study in Colonialism, and Terror and the Wild Man Healing. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Marianna Torgovnick, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness. New York: The Viking Press, 1980.
Robin W. Winks, ed. British Imperialism: Gold, God, Glory. Hinsdale, Illinois: Dryden Press, 1963.
Lewis D. Wurgaft, The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's India. Madison, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.
Other Jungle Books
Hiram Bingham, Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922. G. M. Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle: Being the Story of a Search for the Three Explorers Lost in the Brazilian Jungle. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1929. Col. P.H. Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett. London: Hutchinson, 1953. Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.Rómulo Gallegos, Canaima (1935). Alain Gheerbrant, Journey to the Far Amazon. An Expedition into Unknown Territory, tr. Edward Fitzgerald. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885). William Lewis Herndon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, edited with an introduction by Hamilton Basso. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. Alexander von Humboldt, Voyages dans l'Amérique équinoxiale (1807-). Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books (1894-95). Abel Posse, El largo atardecer del caminante (1992). Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos de la selva para niños(Jungle Stories For Children) (1918). José Eustasio Rivera, La vorágine (1924). Milton Rugoff, ed. The Great Travelers: A Collection of Firsthand Narratives of Wayfarers, Wanderers and Explorers in All Parts of the World from 450 B.C. to the Present. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 2 vols. Severo Sarduy, Colibrí (1984). Mario Vargas Llosa, La casa verde (1967). El sueño del celta (2010).
Some Junglefilms
Tarzan of the Apes The Lost World Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Angels and Insects, dir. Phillipe Haas, 1996, with Jeremy Kemp and Kristen Scott Thomas Romancing the Stone The African Queen How Tasty was my Little Frenchman The Mosquito Coast González Echevarría 7