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3.00 Credits
n Gascón-Ve ra NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An examination of the culture of Spain of the last two decades seen through the eyes of filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar. We will study those films and literary texts that depict the development of Spain as a country in transition from a repressive dictatorship to democracy and postmodernism. Themes of freedom, homosexuality and cross-dressing, family, violence, and the transcen-dence of love and death in our contemporary society will be analyzed. Films will range from Almodóvar's f irst, Pepi, Lucy y Bom to his most recent productions, with special attention giv en to Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios and Tacones lej anos. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit:
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3.00 Credits
Renjilian-Burgy NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of U.S. Hispanic writers of the Southwest and East Coast from the Spanish colonial period to the present. Political, social, racial, and intellectual contexts of their times and shared inheritance will be explored. Consideration of the literary origins and methods of their craft. Authors may include: Cabeza de Vaca, Gaspar de Villagrá, José Villarreal, Lorna Dee Cervantes, José Martí, Uva Clavijo, Pedro Juan Soto, Miguel Algarín, and Edward Riv era. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1
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Guzauskyte In this seminar, we will study the colonial period of Latin America, focusing on the cultural notions of ?clothing? and ?nakedness.? The course will be divided into three parts dedicated to: Native American texts and art (mythologies, codices, maps); European texts (Bible, Aristotle, Montaigne); and accounts of the conquest told from various points of view (Columbus, Ixtlilxochitl, Cabeza de Vaca, Catalina de Erauso). We will analyze how clothing and nakedness were used to symbolize changing power relationships between various protagonists: indigenous/white, female/male, and colonized/colonizer. Topics will include: notions of dress in distinct cosmological systems, clothing and gender in early colonial chronicles, clothing and its absence in the construction of the individual, and collective notions of the Self and the Oth er. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.
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3.00 Credits
Gascón-Vera NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Students will read the scripts and view the films most representative of alternative possibilities of freedom expressed by Luis Bu uel. The course will focus on the moral issues posed in his films and will start with a review of the historical motiva-tions of the Bu uel perspective: Marxism, Freudianism, and Surrealism, as depicted in selected films of Bu uel, from his first, An Andalu-sian Dog (1928) to his last That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Prerequisite: Open to senior majors or by permission of the instructor. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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Vega Medieval Spain, at the nexus of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures, witnessed a flowering of literature dealing with the nature and depiction of love. This course will examine works from all three traditions, stressing the uses of symbolic language in the linguistic repre-sentation of physical desire. Texts will include Ibn Hazm, The Dove's Neck-Ring ; the poetry of Yehuda Ha-Levi and Ben Sahl of Seville; the Mozarabi c kharjas ; the Galicia n cantigas d'amig o; Juan Rui z, The Book of Good Lov e; Diego de San Pedr o, Cárcel de Am or; and Fer-nando de Roj as, La Celesti na. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.
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3.00 Credits
Vega An analysis of the study abroad experience in a Spanish-speaking country, framed within the student's academic trajectory. Based upon personal observations, shared readings, and selected films, students will weigh the validity of concepts that promote a unified identity for Spanish-speaking peoples (?Hispanicity,? ?Hispanidad,? ?Latino,? and ?La Raza?), and will examine the cultural, historical, and intellectual evolution of these notions. Participants will carry out individual research projects focusing on a cultural issue or creative current expe-rienced firsthand abroad. Prerequisites: Study abroad experience in a Spanish-speaking country, open to seniors only. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Uni
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3.00 Credits
Hall NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A study of post-Revolutionary Mexico focusing on works by writers, artists, filmmakers and activists preoccu-pied with what it means to be modern. We will explore the political and historical context of one-party rule, technological innovations in the thirties and forties, the student movement of 1968, the emergence of women into the public sphere, the 1985 earthquake, and the Zapatis-ta rebellion of 1994. We will analyze the writings of leading intellectuals (Paz, Fuentes, Poniatowska and Monsiváis), poetry in Spanish and indigenous languages, essays, works of fiction, crónicas, murals, photographs, communiqués and manifestos. Attention to enduring cul-tural icons such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and Cantinflas, as well as to the realities faced by workers on the Periférico highway in Mexico City and in the maqui las along the U.S.-Mexico bord er. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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3.00 Credits
Ramos NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Agosin An examination of twentieth-century women writers from Latin America. Perspectives for analyses will include questions of identity (nation-al, ethnic/racial, religious, sexual, gender), the extent to which Afro-Hispanic, Indige-nous and non-Christian writers constitute distinct, marginalized groups in Latin American literature, and a comparison of issues regarding identity in selected canonical and noncanonical works by Gabriela Mistral, Remedios Varo, Elena Poniatowska, Nancy Morejón, Rosario Aguilar, Gioconda Belli and Victoria Ocampo. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Agosin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. From 1971 to 2003, Chile, one of South America's longest democracies, has experienced traumatic cultural, political, and social change. From the election of Salvador Allende (1971-1973) through the Pinochet dictatorship, during these turbulent times an unprecedented cultural life was manifested in literature, theatre, and the visual arts. In this seminar, we will explore the cultural changes experienced in Chile during three decades, the ways in which writers understood the complex web of creativity, as well as the specter of censorship. We will analyze how historical figures were revived through writers such as Gabriela Mistral, Rosamel del Valle, Pablo Neruda, and Salvador Allende. Narratives, journalistic essays, theatrical and visual productions will be examined vis-à-vis the social and political history in which the topics were create d. Prerequisite: Open to senior and junior majors Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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