Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Prerequisite:  HISP-S 328 or Consent of Department

Together, we will explore the literary production from Spain and Latin America to build familiarity with literary analysis and what it can offer us in our lives, as well as to foster the continued development of writing and speaking abilities in Spanish. This course is reading intensive, but our work in class will support the development of strategies and skills in comprehension; in class, we will tease out both the details of content and their inherent beauty and figurative depth. We will use texts from across time periods and geographical areas to explore three divergent ideas, offering different avenues of approaching literary studies: 1) how a new generation defines itself (through texts written by canonical authors while in their teens and early twenties), 2) spooky season (the allure of the Gothic, and the contact between fear and fascination), and 3) the limits of “proper” language (through a novel in Spanglish and texts that are written the way we speak, rather than in accordance with prescriptive expectation). Course assessment is is split between engagement with materials and in class, comprehension/retention of information, and written textual analysis.

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