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Spanish Literature Introductory Courses

In this section:

SPANLIT 102N. Contemporary Latin American Theater

SPANLIT 105N. Don Quixote

SPANLIT 106N. Contemporary Latin American Novel in Translation

SPANLIT 109Q. Ten Latin American Protagonists who Changed the World

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Stanford Introductory Seminars (IDS, ISF, ISS) Courses

SPANLIT 102N. Contemporary Latin American Theater

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Representative playwrights and theater troupes of Spanish speaking Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the 60s and 70s. Topics: representation and politics; theatrical language and poetics; avant gardes and performance; teatro comprometido; psychodrama; influence of Brecht, Artaud, and the Theater of the Absurd. Plays by Emilio Carballido, Sabina Berman, Virgilio Piñera, Jose Triana, René Marqués, Luis Rafael Sánchez, La Candelaria, Yuyachkani, Osvaldo Dragún, Griselda Gambaro, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Egon Wolff. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Aut (Briceno, X)

SPANLIT 105N. Don Quixote

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Topics include: theories of language and the novel; history of early modern Iberia; Muslims in Europe. Close reading technique. Sources include filmed version. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Aut (Barletta, V)

SPANLIT 106N. Contemporary Latin American Novel in Translation

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Representative Latin American novelists who attained international readership after the literary boom. Critical readings and theoretical debates. Topics include: latinoamericanidad, reactions to magical realism, crime and the city, politics of translation, economies of prestige, revisions of dictatorship, relations with contemporary art, representations of class and gender, globalization. Works by Piglia, Vallejo, Aira, Bellatin, Melo, and Bolaño. Film adaptations by Piñeyro and Schroeder. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Spr (Hoyos, H)

SPANLIT 109Q. Ten Latin American Protagonists who Changed the World

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sohomores. Life stories and portraits of Eva Peron, Frida Kalho, Che Guevara, Michelle Bachelet, sub-comandante Marcos, Lula , Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Pele, and Victor Jara. The dynamics of Latin American culture. Sources include documentaries, film, video, news, readings, and archives. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Win (Ruffinelli, J)

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