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4.00 Credits
Authors include Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Castellanos and Christina Peri Rossi. Particular attention given to the manner in which these authors and others describe their struggle to assert themselves as women and as writers in Latin America, and how they deal with social, economic and political problems of 20th-century Latin America. Prerequisite: Course 251 or permission of the instructor. A. Heredia
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4.00 Credits
Fiction by Spanish women during the 20th century, from those who started writing under Franco's censorship to those writing in the new millennium. Exploration of aesthetic innovations, with a special emphasis on socio-political and cultural issues: gender and sexual marginality, responses to feminist literary theory, politics of a patriarchal society, and the portrayal of women in modern society. Prerequisite: Course 250 or permission of the instructor. L. González
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of discursive and pictorial constructions of holiness and sinfulness, artistic endorsements or subversions of the official Christian rhetoric, the invention of the "ideal woman," the practice of religionin "popular" culture, and the cult of the Virgin Mary. Prerequisite: Course 207 and 208. Enrollment limited to 20 students. C. Lee
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4.00 Credits
A study of the psychological dimensions of selected works in Latin American short fiction and poetry. Such topics as insanity, suicide, perversion, desperation, and alienation are explored in the works of Roberto Arlt, Felisberto Hernández, Alejandra Pizarnik, Juan Rulfo, Ernesto Sábato, and Pablo Palacio,among others. Readings in psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and existentialism are also included. Prerequisite: Course 251 or permission of the instructor. F. Graziano
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4.00 Credits
Individual Study
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4.00 Credits
Advanced Study Seminars
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4.00 Credits
The diverse images that have come to be associated with the idea of the Orient and Orientalism in Spanish and Spanish American literatures. Through detailed reading of some of the principal texts of the three Spanish cultural traditions (Christian, Arab and Jewish), we will examine the origin and proliferation of these images in Hispanic literary discourse. The incorporation of the metaphors of the Orient into subsequent literature from the medieval period to the present, along with their expression and impact, will also be examined. Prerequisite: Courses 250 and 251 or permission of the instructor. Open to juniors and seniors. J. Kushigian
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the uses and interpretations of violence through case studies presented by the professor, students, and visiting scholars. Included are analysis of conquest and indigenous response, the Argentine "dirty war," the Sendero Luminosomovement in Peru, revolution and counter-revolution in Central America, and self-directed violence (in suicide and in mysticism). Historical and theoretical readings frame the inquiry and provide a basis for comparative analysis. Prerequisite: Course 251 or permission of the instructor. Open to juniors and seniors. F. Graziano
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course studies revolutions and military responses in Spanish America. Case studies include Sendero Luminoso in Peru, the "Dirty War" in Argentina, the Zapatistas inMexico, the FARC in Colombia, the FMLN in El Salvador, the Cuban Revolution, and the Sandinistas and Contras in Nicaragua. Prerequisite: Course 251 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. F. Graziano
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4.00 Credits
Honors Study
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