SPAN 1453 - AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on avant garde movements in Spanish American and Brazil, including creacionismo (Vincente Huidobro) ultraismo (Jorge Luis Borges, antropofagia (Oswald de Andrade and others), estridentismo (Manual Maples Arce and others), the Contemporaneos group (Xavier Villaurrutia, Salvador Novo and others), and various other groups. The core readings will be the manifestoes and other documents in the Jorge Schwartz anthology (Vanguardias latinoamericanas), Mihail Grunfeld's anthology of Latin American avant garde poerty and Hugo Verani's anthology of Latin American avant garde prose. Selected crirical writing on the avant garge (Burger, Poggioli and others) will also be considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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