(4 cr. hrs.)

TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM

Above class will be taught in Spanish
Above class meets with HISP-S 678

Authors writing in Spanish America in the 1950s and 1960s were
acutely conscious of forging a new literary style for themselves,
one that they hoped would be better able to express the region's
reality and experiences than they perceived traditional realist
discourses to be. This course studies the emergence of the Boom in
relation to the decline of realism and the contemporary interest in
Euro-American modernist prose, focusing in particular on William
Faulkner¹s influence.  We both read Faulkner and examine examine
Spanish American and Caribbean authors¹ readings and rewritings of
William Faulkner.  In addition to Faulkner, we will read works by
Rosario Ferré, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Edouard
Glissant, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
We will focus in particular on reworkings and appropriations of
Absalom, Absalom! and ³A Rose for Emily.²  We will examine
representations of the family and how these are affected by the U.S.
South¹s racial, sexual, and gender discourses.  We will also study
the transformations in the representation of time, and the
repudiation of notions of linearity, causality, and chronological
order as part of efforts at rewriting regional‹U.S. Southern,
Spanish American, and Caribbean‹history.  We ask just what it was
about Faulkner and his depiction of the U.S. South that appealed to
Spanish American authors who were just then beginning to achieve
international fame.  We further examine the implications and
limitations of the writers¹ view of Faulkner and the South for the
regional consciousness that was being cultivated and promoted by
Boom authors during this period.

Students are also encouraged to think about the nature and dynamics
of literary influence and to ask what it means to study Spanish
American and Caribbean writers¹ relationships to Faulkner within the
interdisciplinary context of Latin American studies, American
studies, and comparative literature.  Course will be conducted in
Spanish; readings will be in English and Spanish.