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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | SPANB243001 |
Course Title | Temas de la literatura hispana-Conflicto y resistencia |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
Instructor | González-Contreras,Melissa |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | OL102 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1538 This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another 200-level. This course can satisfy the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. Current topic description: The early writings of the New World straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies.; Current topic description: Conflicto y resistencia en el teatro latinoamericano; This course highlights theater as an oppositional force against hegemonic power structures, and as a lens by which one can study and analyze moments of conflict and resistance in the Latin American socio-political context. Students will be familiarized with the terminology and major theatrical and performance tendencies and theories that will allow them to situate these works in relation to theatrical practices in other parts of the world. Students will read and analyze representative works that respond to significant social and political moments of conflict such as the Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s regime, Mexico’s 1968 Student Movement, and the Southern Cone dictatorial regimes (Chile and Argentina). In addition to the primary readings, students will read secondary and theoretical works that will situate the works within their historical and aesthetic contexts. This will reinforce students’ critical analysis skills and will allow them to participate in academic discourse. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Intensive; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Senior; Major/Minor/Concentration; Junior; Permission of Instructor; |
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