SPAN6668A-L17
Narrative&Journalism SP Amer.
Contemporary Narrative and Journalism in Spanish America
A study of the mutual influences and exchanges between journalism and narrative fiction in Spanish America during the late 20th- and early 21st-centuries. The course will discuss the evolution of the genre of the crónicas from modernismo until the present, and will analyze how and why literary and journalistic styles, techniques, and contents are combined in contemporary Spanish American narrative fiction and crónicas by authors such as Roberto Bolaño, Martín Caparrós, Gabriel García Márquez, Pedro Lemebel, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, Patricio Pron, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Rodolfo Walsh, among others. (1 unit)
Required text: Patricio Pron, El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia, (Vintage Español, 2013) (ISBN: 978-0345804129) (or most recent available edition).
A study of the mutual influences and exchanges between journalism and narrative fiction in Spanish America during the late 20th- and early 21st-centuries. The course will discuss the evolution of the genre of the crónicas from modernismo until the present, and will analyze how and why literary and journalistic styles, techniques, and contents are combined in contemporary Spanish American narrative fiction and crónicas by authors such as Roberto Bolaño, Martín Caparrós, Gabriel García Márquez, Pedro Lemebel, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, Patricio Pron, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Rodolfo Walsh, among others. (1 unit)
Required text: Patricio Pron, El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia, (Vintage Español, 2013) (ISBN: 978-0345804129) (or most recent available edition).
- Term:
- Summer 2017 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
- Location:
- McCardell Bicentennial Hall 403(MBH 403)
- Schedule:
- 12:00pm-12:50pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jul 6, 2017 to Aug 18, 2017)
- Type:
- Lecture
- Instructors:
- Anibal Gonzalez-Perez
- Subject:
- Spanish
- Department:
- Spanish (& Portuguese UG)
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Literature
- Levels:
- Non-degree, Graduate
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 60574
- Subject Code:
- SPAN
- Course Number:
- 6668
- Section Identifier:
- A