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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Reading and discussion of representative works by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Many critical approaches focus on plot, characters, themes, and ideas. Emphasis on how these works reflect a synthesis of the spiritual and social problems of Spain in the early 17th century. This course satisfies the Peninsular Literature requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Conducted in Spanish.
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4.00 Credits
These courses cover topics in Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino/a literature, film, theater, and culture generally not considered in other courses offered by the department. The specific material will vary from semester to semester. These courses can be counted towards the major and minor in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Each course description includes information about the major distribution areas covered by each course.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Is the difference between photography and film self-evident If it's true that "moving" photographs "tell stories", and that only films narrated through accomplished imagery interest us, then the distinction is not so obvious. This seminar explores the representation of photography and film in Latin American literature. It studies photographs and films we don't see but only read about, in texts that use "invisible visual materials" until they alter our notions about their visible counterparts, but which are, themselves, altered in the process. Writers to be studied may include Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, J.L. Borges, Roberto Bola o, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante; filmmakers may include Luis Bu uel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Miguel Littin; and photographers may include Eugenio Dittborn, Alfredo Jaar. This course satisfies the Latin American Literature requirement or the Film/Theater requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course taught i n Spanish. Prer equisites: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: humanities and alternativ
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Self-referential novels from post-Franco Spain unmask the conventions of literary invention, openly scrutinizing their narrative and linguistic identity. The authors of these (anti)fictions overtly thematize language and referentiality, techniques of novelization, and the complex relationship between fiction and reality. Our study of the theory and practice of metafiction emphasizes fictional creation (the world of the writer) and reader reception (the world of the reader) while considering recurring stylistic trends including parody and interior duplication. Does this self-conscious awareness signify a radical attack upon realism or a revolutionary continuation of Spain's social-realist tradition Possible authors under study include Juan José Millás, Lourdes Ortiz, Carmen MartÃn Gaite, Juan Goytisolo, Luis Goytisolo.This course satisfies the Peninsular Literature requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course taught in Spani sh. Prerequisit es: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voice
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3.00 Credits
The experience of being imprisoned disrupts our perception of the world. However, intellectuals writing from within prison walls give the impression that the experience can conjure up better insights on the world than so-called freedom. Writers who were never imprisoned have also wanted to write about confinement. The course examines fictional and nonfictional prison narratives. It explores the mysterious allure of such narratives and their strange potential for intellectual insight. Is there something about imprisonment that gives insight on free life Writers to be studied may include Mario Vargas Llosa, José Revueltas, Francisco Manzano, José MartÃ, Ricardo Piglia. This course satisfies the Latin American Literature requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course taught in Spanis h. Prerequisite s: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes diverse constructions of the feminine subject in the narratives of Latin American women writers from across the continent (Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Central America). While exploring numerous themes, styles, and literary techniques of the contemporary Latin American women's short story, we will discover several recurring themes including: silence, desire and female body, literary representations of asphyxiating societal roles for women, and the creation of feminine/feminist literary discourses. Hispanic feminist theory provides a socio-historic, linguistic, and cultural foundation specific to the Latin American context from which to interpret these texts. Authors to be read include Rosario Castellanos, MarÃa Luisa Bombal, Clarice Lispector, Rosario Ferré, Ana Lydia Vega. This course satisfies the Latin American Literature requirement for the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Course taught in Spanis h. Prerequisite s: Spanish 306 or consent of instructor. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices
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4.00 Credits
These courses cover topics in Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino/a literature, film, theater, and culture generally not considered in other courses offered by the department. These courses taught in English include Spanish-language material in translation and/or present English-language literary and cultural production by Hispanic and Latino/a populations in the United States. The specific material will vary from semester to semester. These courses can be counted toward the major in Spanish Literatures and Cultures as electives, but do not count toward the minor in Spanish Literatures and Cultures as they are taught in English.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
For the 2008-2009 academic year, the seminar questions the political and cultural relationships between the United States and Latin America as presented in literary, visual, and filmic texts. The first part of the seminar will focus on a study of literary theory and textual analysis. Topics to be discussed may include: paternalism, insularism, racism, nationalism and notions of globalization and citizenship. Writers may include: Anzaldúa, Belli, GarcÃa Canclini, Fusco, Cormac McCarthy, Alberto Moreiras, and William Carlos Williams. The second part of the seminar will focus on the theoretical and methodological framework for the completion of the senior project. Distribution area: humanities and alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
Staff Designed to allow the advanced student to pursue an individually designed project, expressing a specific interest or topic in Spanish Peninsular literature, and/or Spanish American literature, and/or cinema in Spanish. The student must propose a project, arrange a scheduled time to discuss (in Spanish) the project and its progress with the faculty member, complete the project and submit written evidence (in Spanish) of the work. Evidence of the work also may be presented in an oral or multimedia format in Spanish, but the presentation must include or be accompanied by some written component. Prerequisites: a) the completion of one or more advanced Spanish courses at Whitman above Spanish 336; b) consent of a tenure-track member of the faculty in Spanish to direct the project; c) a one-page proposal (written in Spanish) which sets forth a summary of the project and includes at least a preliminary bibliography. That proposal must be approved by a majority of the tenure-track members of the faculty in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Designed to further independent research projects leading to the preparation of an undergraduate thesis or a project report. Required of and limited to senior honors candidates in Spanish. Prerequisite: admission to honors candidacy. See the World Literature section for literature courses offered in English by members of the foreign languages and literatures department.
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