SPAN 4202 - Survey of Spanish-Amer Literature & Culture II

3 hours

Prerequisites: SPAN 4201 with a grade of “C-” or better.
This course is a continuation of SPAN 4201 and provides a survey of Spanish American literature and culture from roughly 1850 to the present. Students will read and analyze representative Latin American works in all literary genres, including essays, poetry, short stories, plays, and novels, by prominent authors such as José Martí, Rubén Darío, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and others. We shall pay particular attention to the social and historical contexts in which the literary works and cultural movements took shape. We shall also place special emphasis on the development and application of critical skills for literary and cultural analysis through oral and written presentations of the works studied.