Democracy and its Others in Contemporary Spanish Writing and Culture

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is an invitation to explore problems of social representation and aesthetic expression through contemporary Spanish literature and cultures. Readings include texts produced since the beginning of the Spanish democracy in 1978 through the present, and draw from different literary styles and overlapping themes, including: the self, the question of alterity or "the other," violence, memory, biography, feminism and post-feminism, nation and racism, the European community, globalization, rural life, contemporary capitalism, and migrations. In order to consider voices that traditionally have been excluded from nation building discourses in Spanish democracy, a variety of genre (poetry, novel, short stories, tales, drama, film) are incorporated in this course. Taught in Spanish.