Spanish 230 - Latin American and Peninsular Culture and Society: A Transatlantic Search for Identity
TOPCS: LATN AMER CULTUR-IDENTI
Spring
2020
03
4.00
Maria Harretche
TTh 10:50-12:05
Smith College
30284-S20
HATFLD 206
mharretc@smith.edu
Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic.
Prerequisite SPN 220 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 19: A quest for the self and its relation to otherness through a one-poem per class approach. Readings in modern and contemporary works by poets from both sides of the ocean, complemented by the study of related music and visual art. We examine the consequences of political exile as a journey to the unknown (Jiménez, Cernuda, Cortázar, Neruda, Alberti) as well as the voluntary exile of the artist in search of a new aesthetic identity (Darío, Lorca, Vallejo). Special attention is given to the problems of subjectivity, gender and sexuality in the works of four women poets: Agustini, Storni, Parra and Pizarnik.
Prerequisite SPN 220 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 19: A quest for the self and its relation to otherness through a one-poem per class approach. Readings in modern and contemporary works by poets from both sides of the ocean, complemented by the study of related music and visual art. We examine the consequences of political exile as a journey to the unknown (Jiménez, Cernuda, Cortázar, Neruda, Alberti) as well as the voluntary exile of the artist in search of a new aesthetic identity (Darío, Lorca, Vallejo). Special attention is given to the problems of subjectivity, gender and sexuality in the works of four women poets: Agustini, Storni, Parra and Pizarnik.