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3.00 Credits
A survey of Latin American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the writers to be studied are: Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. The course will cover a variety of topics, including: recreating Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism in the New World; emerging voices of the Criollos; and colonialism, nationalisms and independence.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Latin American Modernista literature (from the 1870s to the end of the 1920s), with an emphasis on poetry (e.g., Rubén Darío and Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera) and essays (e.g., José Martí and José Enrique Rodó). As a reaction to Positivism as well as Romanticism, Modernista writers initiated a movement of radical artistic and intellectual renovation, and aimed at creating a very refined literary discourse that would better express their redefined ideals of beauty. They covered a variety of themes, such as eroticism, exoticism (e.g., Orientalism), spiritualism, the changing role of the artist in the new industrial society, etc.
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3.00 Credits
This course spans the first six decades of the twentieth century. It covers the works of major authors in their respective genres: the ¿isms¿ (Jorge Luis Borges and Vicente Huidobro), the various phases of Pablo Neruda¿s trajectory, the re-emergence of feminist poetry, the decline of gauchoesque drama (Florencio Sánchez, Samuel Eichelbaum) leading to ¿reflexive¿ theatre. Other aspects covered are the novelists¿ reinterpretation of indigenous Latin American cultures (Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes), and the surge of the ¿Boom¿ (Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, etc.).
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the works of the latest writers up to the present. It follows the evolution of the concepts and techniques of the ¿post-boom,¿ the ¿post-modern¿ and the ¿novísma Iiteratura.¿ The course follows the changes in the literary trajectory of long-standing, acclaimed authors, as well as the ruptures that produced new alternatives: the writings of exile, testimonials, ethnic regionalism, journalistic fiction, detectivesque and cinematic narratives.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the literature of the Hispanic Caribbean from the nineteenth century to the present. The reading list will include texts by renowned writers such as José Martí, Salomé Ureña de Henríquez, Eugenio María de Hostos, Julia de Burgos, Nicolás Guillén and Juan Bosch. Some of the themes to be explored are: colonialism and national identities; racism, poverty, and socio-political repression as causes of exile.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The course will provide a brief overview of traditional approaches to key Hispanic texts, introduce students to the main tenets of contemporary theory (cultural studies, postcolonialism, New Historicism, materialism, gender studies, postmodernism, periodization, narratology, psychological approaches, post-structuralism, etc.), and apply those concepts through analysis of critical articles about Hispanic texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to analyze the struggle for equality and just representation carried on by Spaniards under despotic rule from 1898 until the end of the Franco era in 1975, and on to the period of Transition to Democracy. Outstanding works of Spanish intellectuals of the various periods will be used to illustrate the struggle of the nation to keep pace with the rest of Europe and the world. Examples from literature, philosophy, education, politics, religion, and journalism may be used.
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3.00 Credits
The course will provide an overview of the main topics and trends in the development of Latin American culture, civilization and thought. It will take into account the fundamental structures of pre-conquest society, the establishment of colonial domination and the transition to forms of neocolonialism, the formation of hybrid cultures and ethnicities, and the socio-cultural profile of contemporary urban life.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the culture and literary production of Latinos/-as in New York. The course will focus on works of fiction written by authors from diverse ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have roots in several Latin American countries such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Colombia. Some of the topics to be explored are: bilingualism and multiculturalism; immigration and the redefinition of national identity; preserving Hispanic culture vs. assimilating to the ¿American way of life,¿ etc.
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