SPAN 4640 - Spanish American Lit From 1880

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Spanish

Description:

Survey of selected periods and themes in Spanish American literature, covering texts from independence to the present in order to study a topic of interest in Spanish American literature and culture through reading and thinking critically about a wide variety of literary and cultural texts, including romantic allegories of the nation, modernism and postmodernism, avant-garde poetry, regionalism versus cosmopolitanism, indigenous and indigenist literature, magical realism and literature of the boom, Afro-Hispanic literature, and testimonial narrative. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Compare the aesthetic principles that guide the following literary movements: Modernism, Postmodernism, "Indigenist Movement", Magical Realism, Afro-Caribbean Barroque, and testimonial literature. 2. Hypothesize how the literary movements of this period, i.e., Modernism, Postmodernism, "Indigenist", Magical Realism, Afro-Caribbean, and testimonial literature, espoused a particular Latin American identity. 3. Critique the literary innovations Latin American authors made to Spanish literature after the 1880s. Prerequisite: SPAN 3390. SP (odd)

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

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