| Course ID: | SPAN 4070. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Latin American Voices of Change |
Course
Description: | Students develop advanced reading, writing, and research skills by exploring how cultural and intellectual production in Latin America (after 1900) responds to various literary, political, and social movements. Alongside novels, stories, essays, and poems, this course also considers art, films, and music. Given in Spanish. |
| Oasis Title: | Latin Amer Voices of Change |
| Prerequisite: | SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To familiarize students with the historical, cultural, and
linguistic development of Spanish-American literature
throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.
Representative texts from all genres of Spanish-American
literature will be used to illustrate the characteristics of
each literary movement as well as how the genres have changed
from their "traditional" forms. The selected texts will be
situated within their cultural context and studied as
linguistic expressions of that culture. In exams and written
assignments, students will be expected to incorporate the
terminology and methods of literary analysis acquired in
Introduction to Literature. |
| Topical Outline: | The literary movements and trends comprising Spanish-American
literature and culture from Modernism to the present day:
Modernism, Vanguardism, the "Boom," Social Realism, Magical
Realism, Revolutionary literature, testimonio literature, and
Postmodern trends. |