Spanish 463A - ST:Desperate Housewives:Feminism and Fiction in Latin America Breckenridge

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Whitman College

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This course analyzes diverse constructions of the feminine subject in the narratives of Latin American women writers from across the continent (Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Central America). While exploring numerous themes, styles, and literary techniques of the contemporary Latin American women's short story, we will discover several recurring themes including: silence, desire and female body, literary representations of asphyxiating societal roles for women, and the creation of feminine/feminist literary discourses. Hispanic feminist theory provides a socio-historic, linguistic, and cultural foundation specific to the Latin American context from which to interpret these texts. Authors to be read include Rosario Castellanos, María Luisa Bombal, Clarice Lispector, Rosario Ferré, Ana Lydia Vega. This course satisfies the Latin American Literature requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course taught in Spanis h. Prerequisite s: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices

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3.00

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www.whitman.edu

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(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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