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The mythic, the otherworldly, and the supernatural have inspired the works of many authors internationally: Maria Luisa Bombal, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Juan Rulfo, and Mary Shelley among many others. This course explores important twentieth-century Latin America novels and short stories that play with supernatural themes and subvert dominant notions of realism. Students analyze how critical terms such as the Fantastic, the Marvelous Real, and Magical Realism are used to describe Latin American narratives and discuss the ways in which these terms have been problematized over time. One-time offering. C. Serrano.
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This course reviews cultural productions of the gendered experiences of people's border crossings throughout the Américas. Students become acquainted with testimonies, film, photography, fictional narrative, and poetry as well as government reports on human trafficking and slave labor. Readings are in Spanish and English. All discussions and written assignments are in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): one Spanish 200-level literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 223. C. Aburto Guzmán.
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Students, in consultation with a faculty advisor, individually design and plan a course of study or research not offered in the curriculum. Course work includes a reflective component, evaluation, and completion of an agreed-upon product. Sponsorship by a faculty member in the program/department, a course prospectus, and permission of the chair are required. Students may register for no more than one independent study per semester. Normally offered every semester. Staff.
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A study of Spanish history and political ideas from 1936 to the present, starting with historical information about the civil war and an analysis of the rhetoric of both sides. The Franco period is examined through texts of "high culture" (poetry, drama, and the novel) and "popular culture" (films, songs, and newspaper clippings) that express supposedly opposing ideologies. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 262. F. López.
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This course explores the genres of horror and fantasy in recent Spanish-language films by directors from Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain, and the United States. It considers how these works represent the supernatural, the diabolical, evil violence, fear, paranoia, and magic; create, perpetuate, and subvert categories of gender, class, race, and sexuality; and adapt and participate in key literary and cinematic genres such as the Gothic, parody, adventure, family drama, magical realism, and science fiction. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 266. Enrollment limited to 20. D. George.
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This course introduces students to the writings of Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) and his particular vision of late nineteenth-century Spain. Like Cervantes before him, Galdós was an acute observer of his times, and his novels, plays, and essays capture and respond to the social, political, and aesthetic concerns that defined Spanish society at the threshold of the twentieth century. Course readings take account of the variety of literary genres Galdós cultivated throughout his career and are engaged in light of such issues as gender, national identity, religion, history versus fiction, and the social versus aesthetic function of literary works of art. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 268. Enrollment limited to 20. D. Geor
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A careful reading and a comprehensive formal and thematic study of Don Quijote. Careful consideration is given to various pieces of Cervantine scholarship. The effects of Don Quijote on the genre of the novel areexamined. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 341. B. Fra-Molinero.
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3.00 Credits
Latin America is a space of intersections where cultures meet and/or crash. Concepts and experiences used to define, locate, and represent these cultures to each other are continuously modified at the crossings. This course aims to take literary products (novels, essays, short stories, and films) as a cross-section of this phenomenon. Each text identifies multiple oppositions that converge violently, merely scar the individual, or craft a new prism by which we can read the dynamics taking place in these intersections. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 342. Enrollment limited to 20. C. Aburto Guzmán.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses gender as the main category of analysis. Students explore the impact of gender conventions on the psychological and social dimensions of womanhood by focusing on the detailed textual analysis of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Authors may include Rosa Montero, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Esther Tusquets, Consuelo García, Carmen Gómez Ojea, and Soledad Puértolas. Prerequsisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 344. Instructor permission is required. F. Lópe
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3.00 Credits
A study of the evolution of political ideas and social values in Spain in the twentieth century through an examination of several plays. Interconnected and parallel sociocultural realities are analyzed along with different dramatic tendencies: from "poetic" to social-realist to avant-garde theaters. Authors may include Lorca, Mihura, Buero Vallejo, Sastre, Nieva, Martín Recuerda, and Arrabal. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Spanish literature course. Not open to students who have received credit for Spanish 345. F. López.
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