SPAN 6779
Spanish American Short Story
The Spanish American Short Story: from criollismo to feminismo
The best stories from Horacio Quiroga to Angelina Muñiz: a thematically and aesthetically comparative approach. Contrasts among criollismo, magic realism, and the fantastic; between stories of the Mexican and the Cuban Revolutions; between existentialism in Mallea and Onetti; among different manifestations of feminism in Bombal, Arredondo, Valenzuela, Rosario Castellanos, Ana Lydia Vega, Gloria Guardia, Ethel Krause, and Angelina Muñiz. (.5 unit)
(A Three Week Course).
Required texts: Seymour Menton, El cuento hispanoamericano 7th ed. (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003); materials in Electronic form to be made available upon arrival at Middlebury.
The best stories from Horacio Quiroga to Angelina Muñiz: a thematically and aesthetically comparative approach. Contrasts among criollismo, magic realism, and the fantastic; between stories of the Mexican and the Cuban Revolutions; between existentialism in Mallea and Onetti; among different manifestations of feminism in Bombal, Arredondo, Valenzuela, Rosario Castellanos, Ana Lydia Vega, Gloria Guardia, Ethel Krause, and Angelina Muñiz. (.5 unit)
(A Three Week Course).
Required texts: Seymour Menton, El cuento hispanoamericano 7th ed. (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003); materials in Electronic form to be made available upon arrival at Middlebury.
- Subject:
- Spanish
- Department:
- Spanish (& Portuguese UG)
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Literature