“THE REPRESENTATION OF ARGENTINA IN MAJOR ARGENTINE LITERARY WORKS"
This study course, tries mostly to suit students' interests and/or needs. However, in order for them to fully understand their object of study, the course has been designed based on mandatory and key texts that allow thinking and discussing the main issues of argentine culture and literature. They should be seen as readings that help foreign students to approach the central issues of XIXth and XXth century Argentina.
After a thorough discussion of the historical, social and cultural context of these texts, students may choose a topic of their interest.
Evaluation
It is based on an everyday written account on what has been discussed in class the day before as well as in-class participation, oral presentation and attendance. Promotion of the course is based on a final essay on the chosen subject.
BASIS OF GRADE SHARE
Oral Presentation 20%
Class Participation and attendance 15%
Homework 25%
Final Exam 40%
Total 100%
The following books will be treated in class:
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: Facundo, Civilization and Barbarism
Facundo, an epic novel founder of argentine literature
The blending of different techniques that conform the great tradition in Argentine novels
Roberto Arlt: Seven Madmen
Arlt as creator of existentialism before Sartre and introductory of le mal de vivre in Argentine cultural scenario.
Seven Madmen as a literary vision of latent violence in Argentine society and the brutal impact of immigration in the course of the nation..
Seven Madmen anticipating terrorism
Anticipating historic feats (Uriburu’s revolution, Second World War, Spanish Civil War)
Civilization and barbarism mirroring each other
Julio Cortazar: Casa tomada; Axolotl
Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forked Paths; Death and the Compass.
The unfamiliar approach to reality
Tomás Eloy Martínez: Santa Evita
Building of the historical subject
History as a literary gender
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