Survey of Spanish-American Literature I

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

An introduction to and servey of major works from the Colonial periods to Independence and Romanticism. The course will include texts by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Fray Bartolome de las pasas, Garcilaso de la Vega, Alonso de Ercilla, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi, Esteban Echeverria and Jorge Isaacs. (Fulfills Survey of Spanish American Literature I) Santiago, LET 1004: This course aims to develop, in students, critical reading skills of Hispanic-American colonial Texts: Diaries, Chronicles, essays, Poems and Testaments, among others. According to this objective, students are given a corpus of Colonial Texts (XV-XVII centuries), and a set of critical texts (philology, History, Theory/Critique Cultural). On the basis of these materials, the students, throughout the course, will be to exercise in textual analysis (recognition of rhetorical peculiarities) and in the reconstitution of the cultural tissues of the colony (e.g. tensions center/periphery, civilization/barbarism, Utopia/dystopia). Santiago, LET 0103: In this class, we will go over colonial American texts written by colonials, Indians, and mestizos. Through this course, students will have to conduct analysis and grasp a better understanding of colonization and its effects.