Iberian and Latin American Studies
SPANISH GRADUATE COURSES
ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010
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Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
SPRING 2010
ROSP 63471 MODERN SPANISH NARRATIVE 3:30-6:15 W
S. Amago
Critical evaluation of the development of modern Spanish narrative fiction from realism to postmodernism, this graduate seminar centers on key texts selected from the MA reading list, beginning with Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Los pazos de Ulloa and continuing through Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbal. We will attend to the central aesthetic and cultural contexts from which these texts emerge: Realism, Modernism, Generation of 1898, post-war, postmodernism. Class discussion, numerous student presentations, and two substantial term papers will determine the final grade. Crosslisted with LIT
ROSP 63782 CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN LITERATURE 3:30-6:15 T
K. Ibsen
This course will focus on the principal tendencies of Mexican literature—narrative, poetry and drama—from the second half of the 20th century. Through close readings of novels, short stories, drama and poetry, this class will examine the works of representative authors both in terms of their socio-historical context and their wider relation to their respective genres, with particular attention to the role literature has played in the consolidation and contestation of state configurations of national identity. Authors examined will include Sabina Berman, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, José Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Paz and Juan Rulfo. In addition to regular class participation, students will be responsible for weekly commentaries on outside criticism and a substantive research paper. Crosslisted with LIT.
ROSP 63630 Colonial Continuities 3:30-6:15 R P. Boyer
This course examines continuities between colonial and contemporary writings by pairing canonical works from the early Spanish-American world with postcolonial and contemporary texts. We will explore the ways that historical writing and fictional writing from and about Spanish America interweave, blurring generic boundaries and historical categories, as well as the ways that literary culture comes to articulate both national subjects and a series of conflicting ideological narratives. Authors studied will include Columbus, Fray Servando, Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca, Hernán Cortés, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Reinaldo Arenas, and W.H. Prescott, among others.
ROSP 63977 Modernization in Latin America: Urban Changes, Technology and Desires at Turn-of-the-Last-Century 3:30-6:15 W M R Olivera-Williams
This seminar aims to critically analyze some of the major transformations of Latin America at the time of its entrance in the world market (1875-1910). Focusing on the dramatic transformations of space and time due to the advancement of technology and the development of the modern city,we will study how literature responds to these major changes, at the same time that it proposes ways to articulate the new Latin American sensitivity. Writes such as Cuban José Martí, Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine Leopoldo Lugones, Uruguayans José Enrique Rodó, Julio Herrera y Reissig and Delmira Agustini, among others, will enable us to reflect on the thoughts of Latin American intellectuals regarding the advantages and disadvantages of modernization as well as their ideas on the different development of the two Americas at a pivotal time in their history. Concepts of nationalism, subjectivities, and gender will be part of our discussions. Thus, theoretical and critical texts on these subjects will also be included.
