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Academic Year 2000/2001
Constructing the Female Subject: Gender and Culture in Hispanic Literature
SPAN 261 FA
We will consider gender as a category of literary analysis, seeing it in terms of difference and power and mapping out how it is inscribed, represented and reproduced in selected poems, novels, essays, and short stories
by Hispanic women writers.
MAJOR READINGS
Selected readings in feminist literary criticism. Prose and poetry works by: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and other writings by nuns, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Marta Traba, Elena Garro, I. Allende, Sylvia Molloy, Rosario
Castellanos, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela
Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Rosario Ferre, Sandra Cisneros.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Oral presentations, papers, final exam
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
SPAN261 is intended for students who have completed SPAN223 or SPAN226. Students who have not done so should consult with the professor before preregistering. Readings, class discussion, and written work in Spanish
only. Strong proficiency in Spanish
necessary. COL students must take this course CR/U; all other students must take the course for a grade.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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