| 85 | M-W---- | 2:30P-4:00P | Lopata Hall / 229 | Tsuchiya | May 7 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| Desc: | GENDER, RACE, AND EMPIRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN. Among the most emblematic moments of nineteenth-century Spanish history were the Napoleonic invasion of 1808, which fractured one of the largest empires in world history; the ratification of the Constitution of Cádiz (1812), which established Spain as a modern liberal state; and the independence of the Spanish-American colonies, begun in the early century and eventually culminating in the War of 1898, with the loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Departing from the premise that colonialism shaped the history of the Spanish nation throughout the long nineteenth century, we will examine the representations of empire in the literary and artistic works of the period, with a special attention to the problems of gender and race. Topics to be discussed include slavery, prostitution, transatlantic sex-trafficking, gender equality, mestizaje, and the Moroccan War. Materials to be examined include plays of the early century, such as María Rosa Gálvez's Zinda and Duque de Rivas's Don Álvaro, the poetry and anti-slavery writings of Romanic authors Carolina Coronado and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, short fiction of realists authors (Galdós, Clarín, and Pardo Bazán), popular erotic novels and the zarzuela (popular musical theater) of the fin-de-siglo, and orientalist paintings of the period.This is a writing-intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work. In Spanish. |
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