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SPANISH (L38)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2017
L38 Span 405WMajor Seminar3.0 Units
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49M-W----1:00P-2:30PSimon / 017 Sánchez PradoDec 20 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM12140
Desc:DRUG DEALERS, SHERPAS AND SKATER BOYS: SUBCULTURES AND ALTERNATIVE CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN LITERATURE. In the past three decades, Mexican literature has seen the emergence of a generation of young and not so young writers who seek to break the literary conventions by invoking genres such as science fiction, STEAMPUNK, crime fiction or fantasy, as well as foms of writing such as the graphic novel and the urban chronicle. This course seeks to explore this production in relation to the increasing penetration of neoliberalism and the US imagination in contemporary Mexican culture in the context of the growing decline of nationalism. The class will specifically address authors working on science fiction, journalism, comics, drug dealer/border stories, experimental fiction, punk and goth literature, fiction about the Nazis, apocalyptic narratives, fantasy worlds, Orientalist recreations and other categories of this new way of understanding literature. This is a writing-intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5 pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work.
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78-T-R---10:00A-11:30ASever / 102 InfanteNo final12120
Desc:CULTURE IN CRISIS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN. This major seminar will focus on how contemporary literature produced in Spain offers different responses to the notion and historical experience of "crisis." This course will examine the ways in which contemporary literature and related art forms can respond to the various social tensions, historical questions and political conflicts inherent in the situation of crisis affecting Spanish society (as part of southern Europe) during the first two decades of the 21st century. The class will therefore study different novels, works of poetry, films, plays and digital narratives recently produced in Spain as they address different aspects of the historical experience of a economic, political and social "crisis." Some of the works that will be studied include: Alberto Méndez, LOS GIRASOLES CIEGOS; León de Aranoa, LOS LUNES AL SOL; Kirmen Uribe, BILBAO, NEW YORK, BILBAO; selections from Belén Gopegui, EL PADRE DE BLANCANIEVES ; José Luis Guerín, EN CONSTRUCCIÓN; Manuel Rivas, LA MANO DEL EMIGRANTE; Agustín Fernández Mallo, NOCILLA LAB; Alex de la Iglesia, LA COMUNIDAD). This is a writing-intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5 pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work.
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