SPAN 1438 - AFRO-HISPANIC CULTURAL PRODUCTION: AFRO HISPANIC WRITERS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers a survey of writing and other forms of cultural production in Spanish by and about Africans and Afro-descendants in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel, visual media) in their national and historical context(s). The writers will be taken from Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony in West Africa, the Caribbean and South America. The courses general objectives are to enable students to appreciate and to demonstrate knowledge of the historical circumstances governing black writing and the black presence in the Hispanic world in the twentieth century, and to appreciate their thematic concerns and specificities, as well as the importance of their contributions to literature and culture in the national and universal contexts. It is also the courses objective to enable students to appreciate the thematic range of this body of materials, especially its engagement with race, with nationalism, with gender, and with the colonial past.
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: Undergraduate Research

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