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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with SPAN220-290 · returned 3 results
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SPAN 220 Racism, Immigration, and Gender in Contemporary Latin American Narrative 6 credits
This course focuses on contemporary short stories and short novels. We will read some of the most relevant living authors from Latin America including Carlos Gamerro, Pilar Quintana, Kike Ferrari, Yeniter Poleo, Antonio José Ponte, among others. This will expose students to the most pressing issues in today’s Latin America, ranging from gender, violence, racism, and immigration. We will interview at least one of the authors read during the term and discuss the social implications of their literature in today’s world.
- Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film 6 credits
Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has undergone huge political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations. Changes in the traditional roles of women, the legalization of gay marriage, the decline of the Catholic church, the increase of immigrants, Catalan and Basque nationalisms, and the integration of Spain in the European Union, have all challenged the definition of a national identity. Through contemporary narrative and film, this course will examine some of these changes and how they contribute to the creation of what we call Spain today.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 244.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 250 The Carnival Trail: Carnival Literature in Latin America 6 credits
Carnivals are frequently associated with colourful crowds, merrymaking and excess. But what role do carnivals play in the construction of national and collective identities? We will try to answer this and other questions focusing on films, paintings, and literary texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that represent some of the most popular carnivals in Latin America: Candombe (Uruguay), Yawar Fiesta (Peru), Blacks and Whites (Colombia), Oruro (Bolivia), and Rio (Brazil). We will analyze them from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes literary criticism, anthropology, and history. Students will engage with debates about nation, popular culture, modernity/modernization, and intangible cultural heritage.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or the equivalent
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SPAN 250.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 2:20pm-3:20pm