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3.00 Credits
The course is based on a combined analysis of theories on violence, nation, and urban spaces, and the study of literary texts pertaining to the Latin American post-Boom. Some of the authors be studied are Ricardo Piglia, Fernando Vallejo, Joge Franco, Roberto Bolaño, Mario Mendoza, Laura Restrepo, Evelio Rosero, Santiago Roncagliolo, Alonso Cueto, Martin Kohan, Guillermo Arriaga, Daniel Alarcón, Paulo Lins, etc. The course is conducted in Spanish and focuses on the interconnections between sexuality, violence, and political issues, and on the discursive strategies used for the representation of collective subjectivities and social conflict in Latin-American societies.
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3.00 Credits
This class focuses on a selection of aesthetically and socially representative 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish-American novels. Integrating a wide range of sources (critical essays, paintings, film), we explore abolitionist issues in Sab (Cuba), the reinvention of Amerindian legacies in Aves Sin Nido (Peru), and the different facets of modernization and nation-building in Los de Abajo (Mexico), and La Voragine (Colombia).You should finish the course with a broader knowledge of Spanish-American literary history, a deeper understanding of textual representations of gender, class, and multiethnic identities, and a sharper awareness of your potential as a reader and critic. Significant selections of pertinent criticism and theory are required of graduate students. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
The short story has been a central part of the extraordinary originality and vitality of Spanish-American writing and it enjoys great popularity among scholars and the general public alike. Integrating a wide range of sources (critical essays, paintings, film), this course brings together the best examples of the genre that span over a hundred years of the history of Spanish-American literature and exemplify a variety of themes and forms: from the ordinary to the fantastic, from the realist to the imaginative. Special emphasis is placed on the questioning of such binary oppositions in the most recent writings, particularly from the Caribbean, promoting the syncretic or "transculturated" forms of expression. Students familiar with the works of Quiroga, Borges, Rulfo, Cortázar, Ferré and Valenzuela are delighted to discover many vibrant new voices, including Peri Rossi, Sommers and Moyano, or to explore the lesser-known terrain of minority writings. Significant selections of pertinent criticism and theory are required of graduate students. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
When Spanish American writers gained acclaim in the world literary scene in the so-called "Boom" of the 1960s, their spectacular success was often linked with the so-called magical realism that draws upon the oral and written tradition of both European and regional heritage (African, Amerindian) and shapes them to forge a uniquely Latin-American poetics. Through theoretically informed approach, this course offers an overview of the most acclaimed Spanish-American novels published between 1950 and 1970, with special attention given to the divergent cultural legacies and political uses of "magical realism." Specific notions of New World/Old World, modernization/tradition, nation building/otherness are explored in novels such as: Los Pasos Perdidos by Carpentier (Cuba), Pedro Paramo by Rulfo (Mexico), La Ciudad y Los Perros by Vargas Llosa (Peru), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir by Garro (Mexico), La Traicion de Rita Hayworth by Puig (Argentina), and Cien Años de Soledad by García Márquez (Colombia). Significant selections of pertinent criticism and theory are required of graduate students. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the principal movements and outstanding figures in the Spanish-American essay from the colonial period to the present. Sor Juana, Sarmiento, Alberdi, Marti, Rodo, Paz, Freire, Ortiz, Sabato, H.A. Murena. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this seminar covers one of the most fascinating periods in Latin-America history and cultural production, spanning from the eve of the wars for independence to eve of the Mexican Revolution (1800-1910). Several reasons make this period and the connections between print media or print culture and power worthwhile. This long century was the most war torn in the region's history. Not only did writers engage issues of war on what was almost a daily basis, but war generated a wealth of new modes of literature. Debates on the slave trade and abolition also occurred during the 1800s, and largely in writing. And while places such as Lima, Peru, and Mexico City were established printing centers during the Iberian occupation of the Americas, true printing revolutions were not widespread until during and after the wars for independence. One of the results to emerge during the first third of the century was that writing and print media gave legitimacy to incipient republican states, wedding print to power in new ways. And by the end of the century, educators and state bureaucrats teamed up to push for public primary education and literacy as components of progressive, "civilized" nations. Add to this the visual technologies and an overall surge in new forms of symbolic communication through print, and it is easy to see why this period offers such a rich backdrop for observing how print and power fit into the landscape we now know as Latin America. We pay special attention to themes including writing as a legitimizing force, writing and nation building, and the intersection of print with war, race, identity formation, modernity, and ideologies. Readings include archival materials, wartime and popular poetry, novels by authors such as Jorge Isaacs and Ignacio Altamirano, writings by Simon Bolivar and Domingo Sarmiento, and modernista poetry and prose. Historical and theoretical selections guide our analysis of primary sources. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the major figures of Latin-American poetry from the colonial period to modernism. Poets studied include Sor Juana, Caviedes, Avellaneda, Marti, Dario, Silva, Najera. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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Survey of contemporary Latin American poetry, "postmodernismo" to the present. Poets studied include González Martinez, Vallejo, Neruda, Huidobro, Paz, Parra, Orozco, Pizarnik, Cardenal, Belli. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a critical overview of the most acclaimed Spanish-American novels published between 1950 and 1970. The following texts are read critically with special attention given to the problematics of canonicity and formal experimentation: Los Pasos Perdidos by Carpentier, Pedro Paramo by Rulfo, La Ciudad y Los Perros by Vargas Llosa, Los Recuerdos eel Porvenir by Garro, La Traicion de Rita Hayworth by Puig, and Cien Anos de Soledad by García Márquez. Significant selections of pertinent criticism and theory are required of graduate students. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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