Spanish-American Short fiction

SPAN

320

Spanish-American Short fiction

Since the publication of Azul by Ruben Dario, Latin American fiction has taken a leading place in Hispanic and world literature. The decades of the twentieth century that follow Dario, and the rest of the Latin American modernists writers, witnessed and array of extraordinary fiction writers who incorporated European vanguardism into works of fiction that were genuinely Latin American. In this course, some of the most significant short fiction produced between the publication of Dario?s masterpiece and the end of the XX century will be studied. Works by Quiroga, Borges, Rulfo, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez and other seminal authors will be considered in the context of the aesthetic, social and cultural movements in which they originated. It is an aim of the course to considerer particular texts in relation to the most important theoretical tenets of the genre. Although attention will be paid to scholarly work that will contextualize the study of the selected works in all pertinent respects, the principal goal of the course is to guide students to learn how to perform textual analysis on the basis of careful consideration of selected texts.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes