Restriction: Must be a SPAN graduate student or hve permission of instructor to enroll.

The course subtitle has been stolen. It belongs to contemporary Colombian writer Juan Cardenas whose poetic and pictorial narratives waves in between literature and visual arts. The purpose of this seminaris to critically reflect on this relation between images and words that seems to be central in some contemporary narratives from Latin America. In this seminar, we will explore this contact zone beyondtheoretical conceptualizations like ekphrasis, inter/trans/mediality, multimodality.