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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) R.Castillo Sandoval Representative writings from the textual legacy left by Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the New World. Emphasis will be places on the transfiguration of historical and literary genres, and the role of Colonial literature in the formation of Latin-American identity. Readings include Columbus, Bernal DÃaz, Gómara, Ercilla, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Cabeza de Vaca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Sigüenza y Góng ora. Prerequis it e: A 200 level course or consent of the instruct
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) A.Gómez Unamuno Memory and the writing of history in contemporary Latin-American narratives. We will address themes such as the struggle against forgetting, the construction of memory, and the writing of the official history in novels, testimonies and documentaries. Prerequisite: Spanish 200 level, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies) I.Burshatin Study of the dissenting voices of gender and sexuality in Spain and Spanish America and US Latino/a writers. Interrogation of "masculine" and "feminine" cultural constructions and "compulsory heterosexuality," as well as exemplary moments of dissent. Texts to be studied include Hispano-Arabic poetry, Fernando de Rojas's Celestina; Tirso de Molina, Don Gil de las calzas verdes; Teresa of Avila, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Reinaldo Arenas. Prerequisite: A 200 level course or consent of the instructor. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) I.Burshatin The discourse concerning Spain's Muslims and their descendants: the Moor as other (sensual, fanatical or exemplary but flawed) and as a metaphor of power, from the Christian Reconquest and the expulsion of the Moriscos to Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicación del conde don Julián . Prerequisite : A 200-level course or consent of the instructor. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies) G.Michelotti An exploration of how literary and visual arts texts have imagined the Latin American metropolitan space. Students will reflect on the representation of urban communities in Latin American cities such as Buenos Aires, Mexico and Havana among others. Prerequisite: A 200 level course, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies) G.Michelotti The representation of female historical and mythical figures in Latin American writings. Women have been writing and written about since the beginning of times in Latin America. It is the intention of this course to explore how the female subject, with an historical and/or mythical presence, is portrayed, manipulated or rewritten by authors and other cultural agents of either gender. Female subjects would include: Malinche, Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Testimonial literature. Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Frida Kahlo. Prerequisite: A 200 level course or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Education) A.López Sánchez This course is designed for the advanced student of Spanish, who is interested in the processes involved in learning a foreign language, and/or contemplating teaching it. Prerequisite: A 200 level course, or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Linguistics) A.López Sánchez The course will explore the relationship between (national) identity and language, and the specific outcomes of (language) policies and educational practices in societies where Spanish is spoken, generally alongside other mother tongues, often as the dominant language, but also in a minority situation. Prerequisite: A 200 level course 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 This course will examine the interaction among mass, elite, traditional, and indigenous art forms and their relationship with the dynamics of national/cultural identity in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the forms of expression to be studied are oral poetry and narrative, the "folletÃn" (19th-Century melodramas by installment) to 20th-Century "fotonovelas," "radionovelas," and "telenovelas," broadsides, comics, musical and political movements such as "neo-folklore," "New Song" and "Nueva Trova," artistic movements such as Mexican Muralism, popular dance, and the cinema. Prerequisite: A 200 level course or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
HU Staff Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
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