S498  Readings for Honors (3 credits)   Authorization Only
Literature
Prerequisite:  S331 and S332 or equivalent

This course is for majors who are doing Honors in Spanish.  This S498,
section 4144 meets with S420, Modern Spanish American Prose Fiction.
If you are leaning toward literature for your background on your
honors thesis, you may want to consider taking this S498 course.

S498  #4144   1:00-2:15P  TR  BH144  Professor Alejandro Mejías-López
Contact Karla Allgood in BH 844 for authorization.

See course description for S420, Modern Spanish American Prose Fiction
below.

S420:  Modern Spanish American Prose Fiction  (3 credits)
Prerequisites:  S331 and S332 or equivalent

SUBTITLE:  Narrating Latin American Modernity.

This course will explore the concept of Modernity and how it has been
narrated in 20th century Latin American novels and short stories
written in Spanish:  What is it that we call modernity? What is it to
be modern in Latin America?  How has the experience of modernity
shaped, and been shaped by, fiction? To what extent is modernity
itself a fiction?  Paying close attention to the historical and
political contexts of textual production, some of the topics we will
discuss include time, generational gaps, popular culture, gender and
sexuality, power and resistance, and aesthetics.

Class attendance and participation are essential to the success of the
course.  Assignments will include in-class presentations, short
essays, and a final paper.  The course will be conducted entirely in
Spanish.

Readings will include:

Ricardo Güiraldes:  Don Segundo Sombra
Alejo Carpentier:  Los pasos perdidos
Gabriel García Márquez:  Cien años de soledad
Gustavo Sainz: Gazapo
Manuel Puig: El beso de la mujer araña
Marta Traba:  Conversación al sur
Alberto Fuguet:  Mala onda