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3.00 Credits
Gascón-Vera A survey of Spanish cinema. Themes of history and society as depicted by major directors since the Spanish Civil War of 1936. We will analyze films of important directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Luis García Berlanga, Víctor Erice, Bigas Luna, Pilar Miró and Itziar Boll aín. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit:
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3.00 Credits
Renjilian-Burgy NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An introduction to the major literary, historical, and artistic traditions of the Caribbean. Attention will focus on the Spanish-speaking island countries: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. Authors will include Juan Bosch, Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julia de Burgos, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, René Marqués, Luis Palés Matos, and Pedro Juan S oto. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1
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3.00 Credits
Guzauskyte A close reading of selected texts that illustrate the intersection of African, Spanish, and indigenous oral and literary traditions. Readings include autobiographies, novels, and poetry. Individual authors to be studied include Rigoberta Menchú, Esteban Montejo, Luis Palés Ma-tos, Nicolás Guillén, Nancy Morejón, and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Topics include the emergence of non-elite voices, the relationship be-tween identities and aesthetics, the marginal and the canonical, literature and the affirmation of the nation-state, and the uses of contem-porary race and gender theory in literary analy sis. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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3.00 Credits
Ramos An examination of Spain's multicultural civilization and history, from the prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira to the artistic movida of post-Franco Spain. Literary, historical, artistic, and anthropological readings will inform our understanding of recurrent themes in Spanish na-tional ideology and culture: Spain as a nexus between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thought; regionalism, nationalism, and international-ism; religion and class; long-term economic consequences of global empire; dictatorship and democracy; and the creation and questioning of national identity. Prerequisite: 241 or 242 or permission of instructor Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Guzauskyte NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An introduction to the multiple elements constituting Latin American culture. An examination of the principal characteristics of Spanish colonialism and Creole nationalism will inform our general understanding of Latin American culture today. Read-ings and class discussions will cover such topics as the military and spiritual conquest, the Indian and African contributions, the emergence of criollo and mestizo discourses, and gender and race relations. Readings will include the works of Latin American writers, filmmakers, and historians. 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
Darer NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An examination of the principal characteristics of the search for identity and independence of the emerging Latin American nations as expressed in literary, historical, and anthropological writing. We will examine the experience of each of four dis-tinct regions: Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean, the Andean countries, and the Southern Cone. Readings will include the works of contemporary Latin American writers, film-makers, and historians. Special attention will be given to the relationship between social is-sues and the evolution of literary form. 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 NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course will explore the vibrant literary culture of Jewish women writers of Latin America from the 1920s to the present. We will examine selected works by these authors, daughters of immigrants, whose various literary genres reveal the strug-gle with issues of identity, acculturation, and diasporic imagination. Writers include Alicia Steimberg of Argentina, Clarice Lispector of Bra-zil, Margo Glantz of Mexico, as well as a new generation of writers who explore issues of multiculturalism and ethnicity. 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
Gascón-Vera, Syverson-Stork NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The characteristics of the Spanish drama of the Golden Age. Analysis of ideals of love, honor, and religion as revealed in drama. Representative masterpieces of Lope de Vega, Cervantes and Ruíz de Alarcón, Tirso de Molina, and Calder ?. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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3.00 Credits
NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An examination of contemporary Latin American theatre and performance art focusing on issues of literary genre, social consciousness and activism, and historical antecedents. Moving from canonical texts by Usigli, Gambaro, Dragún and others to contemporary performance pieces, the course will address such questions as the intersection of art and political activism, the theatrical venue as a determinant of form, censorship, gender and performance, and community formation. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Gascón-Vera, Syverson-Stork A close reading of the Quixote with particular emphasis on Cervantes' invention of the novel form: creation of character, comic genius, hero versus anti-hero, levels of reality and fantasy, and history versus fiction . Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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