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Who are "el Cid", Celestina, Don Quixote, Don Juan? We know these mythic characters and cultural types like the love-struck priest, the picaro, the sentimental Moor, the conquistador, through representations of their spoken words in now-classic works of early Spanish literature. As we explore the texts and historical contexts that produced them, we bring their voices to life once again through dramatic reading and performance.
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This course is a survey of Latin American Literature from the last decades of the 19th century to the present. It offers an overview of the most salient moments in modern Latin American cultural history, placing emphasis on the ways in which specific literary works relate to the social and political developments that have shaped the region since the late 19th century. Readings by Dario, Marti, Huidobro, Borges, Rulfo, and Vargas Llosa, among others.
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Get to know the many who says, "I know who I am", his friends and loves, his models and rivals. This introduction to central episodes of Cervantes' masterpiece asks what it is about Don Quixote's actions, words, convictions and contradictions that makes him ubiquitous in literary and artistic imagination. Course materials include film, music, and visual arts.
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An exploration of the ways in which Latin American jungles have been plotted by fiction, films and testimonies throughout the 20th century and today. We will investigate the construction of jungle as a cultural space where diverse anxieties about sovereignty, nationhood, race, development, gender and subversion collide, and think about this topo-graphy in relation to projects of modernization, and in the context of recent global angst over the environment and its destruction.
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Examines the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) as a key event for understanding the "causes" that shaped 20th-century Spanish history, culture, and society, through study of written and visual texts ranging from the years prior to the conflict up to the present. A key issue is the analysis of the relation between memory, history, and representation in cultural works (narrative, poetry, film, visual arts, comic books, etc.)
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of Latin American literature and film about childhood and youth in the 20th and 21st century. Youth, a fundamental concept for political projects also serves as the focus of a wide array of issues: crime, poverty, political activism and repression, sexism, racism, and marginalization. What does it mean to speak for a child? How do texts about growing up in Latin America reflect on subject formation and social relations in the region?
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4.00 Credits
This course is structured around a set of art and literary works that engage the US-Mexico border. It seeks to understand the fluid nature of the border region along with its recurring themes and dynamics, focusing on the complex links between literary texts, artistic practices, and the increasingly pressing social and political issues of the region. Materials discussed include works by Vasconcelos, Paz, Fuentes, Monsivais, Poniatowska, Bolano, Anzaldua, Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez.
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We will read, listen to, and play with poems dealing with transatlantic perspectives on and from modern Spain. Close attention paid to the relation between poetry and identity, motherland, exile, and nomadism in Spanish and Latin American poets such as Bolano, Cernuda, Dario, Garcia Lorca, Neruda, Peri Rossi, and Vallejo, among others. Includes formal and thematic analysis of poems and hands-on work with texts in Spanish through translation.
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4.00 Credits
Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses.
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4.00 Credits
Theory in Praxis: Critical Controversies. Reading assignments will expose not only a variety of recent developments in literary criticism (as it has been practiced by prominent scholars, from Vygotsky to Barbara Johnson, on both prose and poetry) but also significant controversies that have accompanied and stimulated such development (Trilling versus Vendler on Wordsworth, Alonso versus Spitzer on Fray Luis, etc.) Requirements include short weekly papers and regular participation in class discussions.
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