Advanced

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

•At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze and recognize - based on different sociocultural aspects - various texts representative of Mexican and Latin American literature of the 20th century.

•The student will appreciate, comprehend and conserve the Spanish literary heritage.

•The student will acquire theoretical elements that will allow him/her to undertake the literary works in a critical manner.

•The student will acquire methodological skills on how to analyze, interpret, and appreciate the literary works.

CONTENTS:

1.Epigones of Modernism

2.Realism in Literature
a.Mexican Revolution novels

3.Artistic Vanguards
a.Search for proper literature

4.Nationalisms in Literature
a.Regionalism and indigenism

5.Formal Preoccupations vs Social Preoccupations

6.Proper Narrative Languages
a.Magical realism and the marvelous reality

7.The New Latin American Novel
a.The Boom

8.The Recent Novel

9.New Themes and Subjects in Latin American Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Franco, Jean. Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana a partir de la Independencia, 8va. Rev., Ariel, Barcelona, 1990

Iñigo Madrigal, Luis (coord.) Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana., 3 tomos, 2ª. Cátedra, Madrid, 1992

Sánchez, Luis A. Historia comparada de las literaturas americanas, 4 vols., Lozada, Bs. As., 1973-76

Shaw, Donald L. La nueva narrativa hispanoamericana, Cátedra, Madrid, 1983