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SPAN251
Resistance and Discourse: The Place of the Indigenous in Modern Latin America
SPAN251 SP
Crosslistings: LAST234
| Section | Class Size | *Available | Times |
|---|
| 1 | 18 | 0 | Times: .T.T... 1:10PM-2:30PM; |
*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for
the current phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous
phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration.
(Last Updated on Wed Mar 4 05:00:40 EST 1998
)
This course will examine how intellectuals and writers of
the postcolonial period have made use of indigenous cultures
as well as of the first European reflections on those
cultures: the chronicles of discovery and conquest.
Excerpts from "Vision de los vencidos" and from texts of
Cristobal Colon, Bernal Diaz, Hernan Cortes, and Bartolome
de Las Casas will be read in conjunction with nineteenth-
and twentieth-century essayists, novelists, short story
writers, and poets. An important premise of this course is
that the "indigenous" is not only a complex reality in Latin
America, it is also an object of discourse, a kind of "wild
card" in the intellectual's hand. The major question we
will consider is the following: How have so-called
"pre-Columbian" and contemporary indigenous cultures been
brought forth in the highly polemical context of nation
building in the nineteenth and twentieth century?
MAJOR READINGS
Authors will include:
Aridjis, Homero
Asturias, Miguel Angel
Carpentier, Alejo
Garcia Calderon, Francisco
Mariategui, Jose Carlos
Matto de Turner, Clorinda
Menchu, Rigoberta
Neruda, Pablo
Paz, Octavio
Reyes, Alfonso
Vasconcelos, Jose
Vargas Llosa, Mario
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Oral presentations; three
short papers (3-5); final paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
SPAN234 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.
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: Discussion Lecture Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RLIT
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Conn, R
- Times: .T.T... 1:10PM- 2:30PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 2, Fr: 2
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-03-1998
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