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SPAN6771A-L14

Indigenismo Span Amer Lit&Cult

Indigenismo in Spanish American Literature and Culture
*Three-week course, second session*

Introduction to Indigenismo, a wide-ranging cultural movement (1930s to 1950s) upholding the rights and dignity of Spanish America’s indigenous peoples. The course explores the roots of Indigenismo in Colonial mestizo writers and 19th-century reformists, its flowering in 20th-century visual artists and narrators, and its echoes in today’s indigenous-inspired political movements and films in countries such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Discussion of texts by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Clorinda Matto de Turner, José Carlos Mariátegui, Miguel Angel Asturias, José María Arguedas, Rosario Castellanos, Rigoberta Menchú, and films by Emilio Fernández, Claudia Llosa, and Icíar Bollaín. (.5 unit)

Required text: Electronic material provided at Middlebury.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60577
Subject Code:
SPAN
Course Number:
6771
Section Identifier:
A

Course

SPAN 6771

All Sections in Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 3 Week Session II

Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 3 Week Session II

SPAN6771A-L14 Lecture (Gonzalez-Perez)