Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Note: Graduate students only.

This course centers on Spanish American literature and culture during the constitution of the new republics, that is, from independence to the first decades of the 20th century. We will study literary, visual, and other texts of this period within their historical, social, and ideological context. Special attention will be paid to current theoretical and critical approaches and research areas in 19th-century Latin American literary and cultural studies. Topics will include aesthetic trends and canon creation; relationship between literature, culture, nation-building, and state formation; issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; literary and aesthetic modernity and modernization; regional vs. global cultural production and consumption; nationalism, cosmopolitanism, Latin Americanism, and imperialism.

HISP-S 568     #29788     2:20P-3:35P    MW     BH 123     Prof. Alejandro Mejias-López