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Jorge Luis Borges may be the least Latin American of all Latin American authors, or perhaps the most. In the wake of his own statement that "Every writer creates his own precursors" he has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this can only be a selective course. While our primary focus will be the fantastic in Borges' short stories, with initial forays into the work of Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Maria Luisa Bombal, and Juan Jose Arreola, we will also study his influence on Julio Cortazar, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Roberto Bola?o. The course will include at least some consideration of Borges' impact on the visual arts, and his abiding legacy beyond Latin America. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 105, placement test results, or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
A close study of one of the most influential and early European novels. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616 C.E) was a hit in its day in the seventeenth century, and has not ceased to influence artists and thinkers since. Moving between humorous and serious tones, Cervantes takes on several issues in the Quixote: the point of fiction in real life, the complications of relationships between men and women, the meaning of madness, the experience of religious co-existence, the shapes of friendship, and the task of literary criticism, just to name a few. We will read the book in a fine modern English-language translation, and set it in several relevant contexts to better understand its original intellectual horizon--seventeenth-century Spain--as well as the reasons for its continuing relevance.
Prerequisite:
Any 200-level literature course in foreign languages, Comp Lit, or English, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This class studies Latin American literature of the colonial era (1492-1898) from the perspective of the constitution of the subject: the autobiographical 'yo' that is both the subject of discourse and the object of sovereign power. Our readings will include the most outstanding texts of the group collectively known as the Chronicles of the Conquest --the letters of Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain, among others--whose authors endeavor to establish their historical authority and legitimate their actions before the Spanish king. We will also read later works in which racially and sexually marginalized subjects struggle to contest the identities and the conditions imposed on them by a distant sovereign through far-reaching institutional networks: the mestizo historian known as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the cross-dressed soldier Catalina de Erauso, the poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and the slave Juan Francisco Manzano. This course fulfills the objectives of the Exploring Diversity Initiative by challenging students to examine the historical negotiation of individual and collective identities within the context of violent, exploitative and exclusionary structures of power. <./BR>
Prerequisite:
RLSP 200, 204, LATS/RLSP 209 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
A common assumption about Spain is that in its medieval period members of the three religions co-existed in harmony, worked together, and influenced one another. This is an attractive myth for sure, but also a very simplistic one. It does not begin to take into account the complexity of Iberia, whose regional identities, crises of sovereignty and complicated allegiances were hardly ever constant in the medieval period. The very notions of "influence" and "co-existence," which have long governed general assumptions about medieval Spain, become problematic if considered in the context of the actual time and place in which they are supposed to have occurred. Centered on the thorough reading of three masterpieces of the medieval period --El Cid, El libro de buen amor and La Celestina-- we will explore, specifically, Castilian culture across three different periods, with an attempt to make connections to key concepts that will give us a nuanced and fair understanding of medieval Spain's extraordinarily rich and multifaceted identities.
Prerequisite:
Any RLSP 200-level class or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider different kinds of works (poetry, memoirs, fiction, essay) written by authors forced to live in exile as a consequence of political and/or religious persecution. Our point of departure will be the paradigmatic expulsion and subsequent diaspora of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. Most assignments, however, will be drawn from twentieth century texts written during, or in the wake of, the massive destruction and displacements brought about by the Spanish Civil War and World War II. How is the life lost portrayed? How are the concepts of home and the past intertwined? What kind of life or literature are possible for the deracinated survivor? We will discuss the role of writing and remembrance in relation to political history, as well as in the context of individual survival. Readings might include works by Nu?ez de Reinoso, Leon, Cernuda, Semprun, Benjamin, Nancy, and Blanchot.
Prerequisite:
Comparative Literature 111 or an equivalent English course
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3.00 Credits
Military dictatorship is among the most crucial factors in Latin-American society and history, and some of the continent's leading novelists have taken it upon themselves to depict the experience in their work. In this course we will examine both the fact of dictatorship itself and the diverse representation thereof in Spanish-American fiction. Novels by Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Poniatowska, and Tomas Eloy Martinez will be closely studied. Students will also read Absalom! Absalom! by Faulkner, whose influence on Latin-American authors' techniques of representation has been decisive and profound. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Any 300-level course or two 200-level courses or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
Spanish senior thesis/
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3.00 Credits
Spanish senior thesis/
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3.00 Credits
Spanish independent study.
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3.00 Credits
Spanish independent study.
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