- Oral Narrative and Storytelling

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This seminar explores oral narrative and storytelling through the lens of folkloristics and cultural studies, which provide an interpretative framework to answer the following questions: What is the nature of narrative and its relation to culture? How is narrative constituted by and constitutive of its cultures of origin, and how does it function within its home cultures? In addition to reading (and listening) to primary texts from Spain, Latin America, and Morocco, students will learn the theoretical paradigms of folkloristics and cultural studies as well as tools available to the researcher. Finally, students will select a tale type from the regions studied and map its variation across space/time via ArcGIS StoryMaps. Taught in Spanish.