SPAN 350 - The Cuban Story

FDR: HL, GE3
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years

Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.A multigenre examination of 20th-century Cuba as its own “story.” Beginning with the first European account of Columbus, to insights from slaves, to finally more recent writers who question its future, the course presents the development of Cuban society as its own narrative. Major readings by Manzano, Barnet, Marti, Carpentier, Castro, Guevara, Garcia, and Hernandez Diaz, among others. Shorter anthologized works by Guillen, Lezama Lima, Valdes, Novas Calvo, Cabrera Infante, and Sarduy, among others. Films by Guitierrz Alea, Vega, Solas, and Tabio, among others.Barnett.