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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of the relationships between literature and society during the 19th and 20th centuries in Latin America. Different instances in the articulation of national identity and struggle for cultural independence will be considered through the reading of pertinent texts. Particular emphasis on salient political ideas ingrained in literary narratives. Among authors studied are Jorge Isaacs, Clorinda Matto de Turner, José Asunción Silva, Mariano Azuela, Mayra Santos-Febres, Alberto Fuguet and María Luisa Bombal. Prerequisite, 210, 211 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
On the night of Oct. 2, 1968, a student demonstration ended in a massacre of hundreds in the Plaza de Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City. A shocked nation watched as the government claimed that extremists and Communist agitators had provoked the violence, while witnesses declared that the demonstrators were unarmed. Various reporters, scholars, historians and writers have attempted to explain the events of Tlatelolco. Considers the effect of this monumental event on Mexican society as represented through the press, Mexican literature, art and film. Prerequisite, 200 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
A study of translation theory and its applications in Spanish to English and English to Spanish. Includes a comparative study of the grammatical structure of both languages, terminology building and ample practice with translations in various fields. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, 200, 201 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish. Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite, 210, 211 or consent of instructor. Normally not open to senior concentrators.
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3.00 Credits
The course will serve as an introduction to the multifaceted Latin American historical Avant-garde, or Vanguardismo. This course will analyze the various approaches Vanguardismo posed in relation to concepts of national and cultural identity, their unique yet diverse aesthetic, and their view of Latin America's inclusion into Modernity. The course will also study specific Avant-garde cultural movements such as Argentinian Ultraísmo, Brazilian Modernismo and Mexican Estridentismo and documentries and movies such as Metropolis, An Andalusian Dog, and Frida, among others. Prerequisite, 210, 211 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Critical reading and interdisciplinary discussion of selected Latin American short fiction. Designed to familiarize students with the poetics of the Latin American short story and its relationship to pertinent literary movements. An intercultural examination of the artistic components of various Latin American short stories within their socio-historical contexts. Readings will include works by Borges, Quiroga, Cortázar, Rulfo, Valenzuela, Castellanos, García Márquez and others. Prerequisite, 210 or 211 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study of cross-cultural production and political discourse of Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic), Haiti and the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States. Historical inquiry into European conquest of the Caribbean, the legacy of slavery, sugar plantation economy, race formation, colonialism, nationalism, U.S. imperialism and the new politics of the "ethno-nation" through the diverse mediums of literature, history, geography, essay, music, dance and film.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of cultural interactions between Spain and Latin America, and among Spain, Latin America and the U.S., in literature, music, film and popular culture from the early modern period to the present. Topics include imperialism; the relationships between modernity and colonialism; diasporas; contact zones; transculturation; rearticulation of transnational identities; coexistence in difference; borderlands; mestizo cultural spaces; cultures of resistance. Authors include Guamán Poma, "Clarín," Rosalía de Castro, García Lorca, Vallejo, Guillén, Anzaldúa, Ramos Otero, Manu Chao. Prerequisite, 210, 211 or consent of instructor. Taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
The Spanish Civil War and its aftermath shaped 20th-century Spain. This course centers on a selection of novels and films which reconstruct, evoke and explore this traumatic event and its consequences in different ways. We will also explore current efforts in Spain to recover what is referred to as an "historical memory" ("memoria histórica") of both the war and the Franco dictatorship which followed it. Issues of trauma, exile, memory, identity and gender will be studied. Works by Martín Gaite, Matute, Rodoreda and Chacón among others. Prerequisite, 210 or 211 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth view of the beginning and early development of Spanish literature, emphasizing key works that serve as precursors to later Spanish and Latin American literatures, including Jarchas, El Poema de Mió Cid, Auto de los Reyes Magos, El Conde Lucanor, Libro de Buen Amor, poetry of the Romancero, Coplas por la muerte de su padre, Cárcel de Amor and La Celestina. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite, two 200-level courses in Hispanic studies above 200 or 201, including 210 or 211 or consent of instructor.
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