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353. Indigenous Myth in Spanish-American Literary Art. (3h) Study of Spanish-American writers’
incorporation of Amerindian myths in twentieth-century narrative art. Includes works by
Miguel Angel Asturias, Mario Vargas Llosa, and José Donoso. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
354. The Social Canvas of Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda. (3h) Exploration of the techniques
used by two Nobel Prize-winning writers to create a literary vision of Latin America.
Attention to humor, surrealism and the grotesque, and both writers’ assimilation of personal
anxieties to their portrayal of a social world. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
360. Cultural and Literary Identity in Latin America: From Colonial to Postcolonial Voices. (3h)
A study of a variety of texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dealing with political
emancipation, nation-building, and construction of continental identity. P—SPA 217 or 218 or
POI.
361. Latin-American Cinema and Ideology. (3h) Examination of major Latin-American films as
cinematographic expressions of social and political issues. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
362. Romantic Nationalism, Avant-garde Nihilism, and the Deconstruction of Utopia. (3h) Study
of Latin-American poetry, including symbolist, surrealist, and conversational poetry, “happenings,”
and artistic manifestoes. Politics, nation-building, liberation theology, and love are
common themes. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
363. Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Theatre. (3h) Study of major dramatic works from
various Latin-American countries. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
364. Spanish-American Short Story. (3h) Intensive study of the twentieth-century Spanish-
American short story with emphasis on major trends and representative authors, such as
Quiroga, Rulfo, Borges, Cortázar, Donoso, and García Marquéz. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
365. Spanish-American Novel. (3h) Study of the novel in Spanish America from its beginning
through the contemporary period. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
366. Seminar in Spanish-American Novel. (1h or 3h) Study of one or more categories of Spanish-
American novels, such as romantic, indianista, realistic, gauchesca, and social protest.
P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
367. Colonial Spanish America. (3h) Explores the early Spanish-American colonial period alongside
contemporary intellectuals’ attempt to return to and recover this historical past. Readings
include fifteenth- and sixteenth-century codices, post-conquest indigenous writings, Iberian
chronicles and letters, as well as twentieth-century documents. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
368C. Cuban Literature. (3h) Study of Cuban literature from the eighteenth century to the
present: romanticism, modernism, naturalism, the avant-garde movement, and the post-
Revolutionary period. P—SPA 217 or 218 or permission of director of the Cuba program.
369. Imagined “White” Nations: Race and Color in Latin America. (3h) Study of anti-slavery narratives,
nineteenth-century scientific racism, and twentieth-century Negritude and “negrismo”
movements. An exploration of race, the stratification of color, and ethnic images in Latin American
literature and culture. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI. (CD)
370. Film Adaptations of Literary Works. (3h) Study of the cinematic and literary discourses
through major Spanish literary works from different historical periods and their film adaptation.
P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
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