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Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona Aug 2019

Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona

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The study of the short story genre in Latin American literature. Literary currents in 20th century, from the Vanguards to The Boom, fiction of post dictatorships, exile, and entry into the 21st century.


Orientalism In Hispanic Literatures, Araceli Tinajero Aug 2019

Orientalism In Hispanic Literatures, Araceli Tinajero

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This course will examine Hispanic (including Brazilian) literary and cultural representations pertaining to China, India, Korea, and Japan. Students will read novels, short stories, poems, essays, and chronicles of prominent writers of the Hispanic world in order to have a deeper understanding of the “East/West” divide conceptualized as Orientalism. Students will be exposed to films, music, and visual representations so they can have a better understanding of the historical, geographic, and transnational connections between the Hispanic world and the Far East.