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

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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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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 #hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature

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

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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.

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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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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

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

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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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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

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