Spanish-American Literature

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Each theme will be introduced by a lecture, followed by readings of historical texts and essays. Whenever possible, audiovisual ocumentaries will also be presented. Students will read and comment in class excerpts from compulsory literary texts.  

Learning Outcomes

The syllabus is designed so that students may be aware of the geographical dispersion and the literary production diversity, both thematic and cultural, of Hisanic America. Students will learn about with reference authors, and they will learn some peculiarities of American Spanish. Since Hispanic American cultures are simultaneously very close and very apart from European cultures, these literatures provide linguistic and civilizacional knowledge that helps them to embrace inter-relations with other communities.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Culture and literature of the Colonial period: brief introduction. The “leyenda negra”.

2. Hispanic Modernism and its links to European Symbolism. The importance of Ruben Darío.

3. Literary and political Hispanic-american vanguards.

4. The “magical realism”. Cultural fusion in Latin America.

5. Hispanic-american narrative maturity. The boom.

Head Lecturer(s)

Elena Gamazo Carretero

Assessment Methods

Periodic Assessment
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alonso Girgado, Luis (1995). "Estudio preliminar", Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana. Madrid: Alhambra Longman.

Fernández, Teodosio, Millares, Selena & Becerra, Eduardo (1995). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid: Universitas.

Henríquez Ureña, Max (1978). Breve historia del modernismo. 2.ª reimp. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Jiménez, José Olivio (2009). Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: 1914-1987. 5.ª reimp. Madrid: Alianza (El Libro de Bolsillo).

Sánchez Ferrer, José Luis (1990). El realismo mágico en la novela hispanoamericana. Madrid: Anaya.

Shaw, Donald (2005). Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana: boom, posboom, posmodernismo. 8.ª ed. Madrid: Cátedra.

Villanueva, Darío & Viña Liste, José María (1991). Trayectoria de la novela hispanoamericana actual : del “Realismo Mágico” a los años ochenta. Madrid: Espasa Calpe