The City and the Writer: Buenos Aires

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How does a city shape the form of writing and language? How has literature challenged certain theories of space, or constructed narratives around urban identities? This course offers the occasion and inspiration to produce new works - poems, visual essays, or short stories, plays, or films - inspired by Buenos Aires. Readings and workshops will serve as maps for cross-disciplinary and cross-border examinations of urban life, journeys through imaginative spaces, and debates on immigration, identity, culture, and literature. Discussions will revolve around private and public spaces, ruins and constructions, traditions and modernity, memory and hyphenated identities, literature and society. Students will have the unique opportunity to meet numerous residents of Buenos Aires, from theater makers, designers, architects, artists, filmmakers, feminists, actors, comedians and chefs. This course will be offered in June-Term 2026. This course will be taught at NYU Buenos Aires and will count as an Away J-Term course.