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.
Athena 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)
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.
Syllabus