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3.00 Credits
Hall A survey of contemporary works with in-depth analysis of realistic and fantastic short stories from contemporary Latin America, including short stories by Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Rojas, María Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Már-quez, and Elena Poniatowska. These readings deal with issues of identity, memory, class, freedom, violence, mass media, education, women and children, urban and rural life. Special attention to voices that have emerged since the nineties, including Alberto Fuguet (Chile), Rita Hernández (Dominican Republic), and Jorge Volpi (Mexico), among oth ers. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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3.00 Credits
Ramos NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of the struggle for self-expression in Franco's Spain and the transition from dictatorship to democra-cy. Special attention will be devoted to the literature of the Civil War and exile. Authors include Mercè Rodoreda, Camilo J. Cela, and Eduardo Mendoza . Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Renjilian-Burgy A survey of the major works of Chicano literature in the United States in the context of the Hispanic and American literary traditions. A study of the chronicles from Cabeza de Vaca to Padre Junípero Serra and musical forms such as corridos. A critical analysis of the themes and styles of contemporary writing. Works by Luis Valdez, Rodolfo Anaya, Tomás Rivera, Gloria Anzaldúa, Américo Paredes, Rosaura Sánchez, Jorge Ramos, and Rodolfo Gonza les. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1
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1.00 Credits
Ramos NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2010-11. The masters of nineteenth-century peninsular prose studied through such classic novels as Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera, Miau by Pérez Galdó s, Los pazos de Ull oa by Countess Emilia Pardo Bazán, and La barr aca by Blasco Ibá ez. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O. Offered in 2010-11. Unit: 1
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0.00 Credits
Agosin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of the major twentieth-century poets of Latin America, focusing on literary movements and aesthetic representation. Poets to be examined include Vicente Huidobro, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, and César Vallejo. Mandatory cre-dit/noncredit. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Agosin During the years of post-dictatorial regimes in Latin America writers, poets, historians and fimmakers have become deeply involved in the ways in which literature and the arts can explore the representation of memory and oblivion and collective remembrance as well as forget-ting. Among the cultural historians and writers we will read are: Diamela Eltit, Carlos Cerda and Raúl Zurita. Among the filmmakers, the works of Patricio Guzmán and his series on memory will be explored . Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Gascón-Vera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A selection of readings-novels, poetry, essays, theater-by Spanish women writers from the 1980s to the present day, including Rosa Montero, Esther Tusquets, Adelaida García-Morales, Cristina Fernández-Cubas, and Lucía Etxebarría. A close study of the development of their feminist consciousness and their response to the changing world around them. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit:
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3.00 Credits
Ramos NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course presents an introductory overview of poetry written in Spain, across regions and aesthetic pe-riods. Our study will be anchored in poets representative of important poetic movements, including Romanticism, Modernismo, and Mod-ernity. Texts will also cover Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Basque, Catalan and Galician poetry will also be analyzed. Some of the poets to be examined are Garcilasco de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz, Francisco de Quevedo, Federico García Lorca, Con-cha Méndez, Luis Cernuda, Pedro Salinas, Gloria Fuertes and Jaime Gil de Biedma . Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Renjilian-Burgy NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course will explore the history of Latin American cinema, from the early 1960s to the present. Different forms of cinematic expression will be explored: narrative film, the documentary, the cinema of exile, and others. Issues of national culture and identity, as well as cultural exchanges of films between Latin America and abroad will be addressed. In addition to the films them-selves, students will be required to read selected works on film criticism and several texts which have been made into films. Directors whose films will be analyzed include Marí a Luisa Bemberg, Fernando Solanas, Jorge Silva, and Raúl Ruiz . Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Agosin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The role of the Latin American writer as witness and voice for the persecuted. Through key works of poetry and prose from the 1970s to the present, we will explore the ways in which literature depicts issues such as: censorship and self-censorship; the writer as journalist; disappearances; exile; testimonial writing; gender and human rights; and testimonial narratives. The works of Benedetti, Timmerman, Alegría, and others will be studied. Mandatory credit/noncredit. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature or Religion, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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