SPA 365 - Transatlantic Hispanic Literatures and Cultures

Semester Hours: 3
This is a panoramic course whose objective is to familiarize students with some of the key writings that have shaped our current understanding of Hispanic cultures across the Atlantic Ocean. This course will begin by exploring what are considered to be the earliest samples of Spanish writing and will end with some of the most renowned, contemporary literary works in Spanish. Students will be exposed to a diversity of texts and genres, primarily literary (poetry, narrative, drama), but also non-literary (chronicles, letters, legal documents, and so on), taking into account the context from which these texts arise. This course will privilege the history of ideas prevalent in the Spanish-speaking world, rather than a more traditional understanding of literature and thought as mainly national products. Students will study how different ideas, movements, styles, and so on travel across the Atlantic and how such ideas are implemented or reinvented to suit their specific contexts.

Pre-requisites: SPA 301 - Advanced Spanish or SPA 310 - Composition and Conversation.

Offered: Fall.