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Advanced Seminar in Literature: First Images of America in Colonial Literature
SPAN290 SP

The purpose of this seminar is to raise questions about critical concepts and discourses and about literary history. The organizing topic will be "First Images of America in Colonial Literature". Overview of European impressions and assumptions about America on encounter and subsequent contact. Topics discussed: problems of reading those texts, fiction vs. history, the noble savage, the exchange symbols, the notion of quest, utopianism vs. materialism, and the point of view of the conquered.

MAJOR READINGS

Works by: C. Columbus, Cortes, Diaz del Castillo
F. Bartolome de las Casas, BREVISIMA RELACION DE LA
DESTRUCCION DE LAS INDIAS
F. Bernardino de Sahagun, HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS COSAS DE NUEVA ESPANA, vol 1
A. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, NAUFRAGIOS
L. Inigo Madrigal, ed., HISTORIA DE LA LITERATURA
HISPANOAMERICANA I. (EPOCA COLONIAL)

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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