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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) G.Michelotti "Jewish Gauchos," "Tropical Synagogues," "Poncho and Talmud," "Matza and Mate." This course will examine the native and diasporic worlds described in the apparent dichotomies that come together in the Latin American Jewish Literature. The class will trace the different trajectories of time, space and gender of the Jewish experience in Latin America, where issues of migration, memory and hybridization come to life through poetry, narrative and drama. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) Staff Introduction to selected short 20th-century Spanish-American short stories and novels by GarcÃa Márquez, Bombal, Cortázar, Ferré, GarcÃa Ramis, Vega, etc. Prerequis ite: SPAN 102, placement, or conse
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HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) R.Castillo Sandoval The relationship between history and literature in Spanish America through examination and comparison of selected historiographical and literary texts. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which historical and literary genres have interacted and influenced one another from the Discovery and Conquest through the Independence and national formation periods and the 20th century. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) G.Michelotti Exploration of films in Spanish from both sides of the Atlantic. The course will discuss approximately one movie per class, from a variety of classic and more recent directors such as Luis Bu uel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Lucrecia Martel among others. The class will focus on the cinematic discourse as well as the cultural and historic background of each film. The course will also provide advanced language training with particular emphasis in refining oral and writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) R.Castillo Sandoval An examination of seminal literary texts written in Latin America in the nineteenth century. Novels, essays, travelogues, short stories, miscellaneous texts, and poetry will be analyzed and placed in the context of the process of nation-building that took place after Independence from Spain. A goal of the course will be to establish and define the nexus between the textual and ideological formations of 19th-century writings in Latin America and their counterparts in the 20th-century. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU A.Gómez Unamuno The course focuses on cosmopolitanism and on representations of the rural world as a contradictory modernity in seminal Mexican novels. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement or consent of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) A.Gómez Unamuno This course explores literary texts and films produced after the 80's. These texts address political issues including memory, gender, violence, and border, and destabilize foundational identities and mythic representations found in the Latin American Boom narrative. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Latin American and Iberian Studies) I.Burshatin Introduction to the culture and literature of medieval and early modern Spain: Castilian expansion, religious diversity, and cultural transformations, from the Reconquest to the Habsburgs. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) I.Burshatin This course examines the impact of the Holy Office on literature and on social and symbolic practices in early modern Spain and the Americas, with comparative study of other inquisitions in medieval Provence and England. Topics of discussion include the construction of heresy as a political act; inquisition as instrument of social control and as mode of rational inquiry; the crafting of subaltern subjects (racial, sexual, and gender minorities) and the surveillance of imperial lites. Texts studied include trial dossiers, literary and dramatic texts, and modern film adaptations. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) G.Michelotti An exploration of various plays produced during the 20th Century in different Latin American countries and the US in the context of major theatrical movements and central themes in Latin American culture and history. The readings will include works by female and male playwrights. When possible, there will be a correlation with films, based on the plays discussed in class. The students will also be encouraged to perform in class chosen acts or scenes from one or more of the plays analyzed during the semester. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, placement, or consent of the instructor.
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