Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

Photograph of the painting Table dans un cafe by Pablo Picasso, France 1912.

Table dans un café by Pablo Picasso, France 1912. (Image courtesy of dalbera on Flickr.)

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MIT Course Number

21F.716

As Taught In

Fall 2007

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America and Spain. Emphasis is on developing strategies for analyzing the genres of the novel, the short story, the poem, the fictional film, and the theatrical script. The novels read this semester are Magali García Ramis's Felices días, Tío Sergio (1986, Puerto Rico) and Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina (2001, Spain). We will study Lorca's play "La casa de Bernarda Alba" (1936, Spain), films from Spain, México, and Cuba, poems by Darío (Nicaragua), Machado (Spain), Lorca (Spain), Hernández (Spain), Vallejo (Perú), Cernuda (Spain), and Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico), and short stories from México (by an exiled Spanish writer), Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. Thematic emphasis is on the Spanish Civil War, changing attitudes toward gender, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and the history of race in the Americas.

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Garrels, Elizabeth. 21F.716 Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature, Fall 2007. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-716-introduction-to-contemporary-hispanic-literature-fall-2007 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


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