SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisites:SPAN 240 and SPAN 215 or 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. Recent topics have included “Spanish American Women Writers: From America into the 21st Century,” “20th Century Latin America Theater,” and “Past, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Argentina’s Cultural Products.” May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Winter 2012:

SPAN 398-01: Spanish-American Seminar: Fictions of Self-Representation (3) Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and either SPAN 215 or 275. The course examines forms of self-representation through the reading of literary and non-literary works. In addition to conceptual discussions of how artists use fictionalized forms of self portraiture in diverse Latin-American contexts, special attention is paid to issues of subjectivity, self-empowerment, authority, and reader recognition, among others. Primary texts focus mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries. (HL) Botta. Staff.