Objectives
a) Hispanic America’s historical and literary general perspective.
b) Understand the vision of America by the first European texts written about the subcontinent.
c) Understand the Hispanic American literature’s course throughout the colonial period and independence.
d) Know and understand the Hispanic American literature’s tendencies during the throughout the twentieth century.
General characterization
Code
711111077
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Isabel Rute Araújo Branco
Hours
Weekly -
4
Total -
168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Bellini, Giuseppe (1997).Nueva historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid: Castalia.
- Bowers, Maggie Ann (2004). Magic(al) realism. New York: Routledge.
- Franco, Jean (1987). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Barcelona: Ariel.
- Lezama José L. (2005). La expresión americana. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- Mignolo, Walter (2007). La idea de América Latina. La herida colonial y la opción decolonial. Barcelona: Gedisa.
- Montoya, Jesús J. ,ed. (2008). Entre lo local y lo global. La narrativa latinoamericana en el cambio del siglo (1990-2006). Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, Vervuert.
- Oviedo, José Miguel (2001). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
- Padura Fuentes, Leonardo (2002). Un camino de medio siglo: Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- Todorov, Tzvetan (2000). La conquista de América. El problema del otro. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.
Teaching method
Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - Two tests.(100%)
Subject matter
1. History, geopolitics and culture: understanding the Hispanic American literatures.
2. Hispanic American literatures: the last decades. The editorial Boom. Antología McOndo. Manifiesto del Crack. New thems.
3. From «fantastic» to «real maravilloso»: Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortázar.
4. Modernism: Ruben Darío.
5. The Independence and the nacional literatures: José María Heredia and José Martí.
6. The Romanticismo: the case of «El matadero» (Esteban Echeverría).
7. The colonial period: Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
8. The first chronicles: Cristóvão Colombo and Bartolomé de las Casas.
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