SPAN 1426 - LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of the literature of the Southern Cone countries, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, from the nineteenth century to the present. Issues to be examined will include debates about nation formation and nationalism, relations between indigenous peoples and European settler (including the massive waves of European migration in the period around 1900), the relations between literature and he press, questions of canon formation, and the literary production of minority communities (European and Asian immigrants, Afro-Latin Amercian communities, indigenous peoples, LGBTI communities) and questions of gender and sexuality. Writes to be studied in a given term will include some of hte following: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Hernandez, Alberto Blest Gana, Jose Enrique Rodo, Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroga, Delmira Agustini, Florencio Sanchez, Roberto Arlt, Maria Luisa Bombal, Jose Donoso, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, Juan Carlos Onetti, Felisberto Hernandez, Augusto Roa Bastos, Silvian Ocampo, Idean Velarino, Ricardo Piglia, Dimela Eltit and Pedro Lemebel
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research

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