A conversation for SPAN 312 about Mario Vargas Llosa's comic novel, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service. With Phil Swanson and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Rethinking Civilization and Barbarism
10:44 The Business of Sex
14:38 A Shift from Left to Right
18:45 Technology and Form
23:18 Ambivalence and Multiple Readings
25:23 The Limits of Machismo
28:29 Credits
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