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Hispano American Literatures: from Modernism to the Present

Objectives

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General characterization

Code

01106958

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Isabel Rute Araújo Branco

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Bellini, G. (1997). Nueva historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (3ª ed.). Madrid: Castalia.
  • Bowers, M. A. (2004). Magic(al) realism. New York: Routledge.
  • Cortázar, J. (2004). «Notas sobre lo gótico en el Río de la Plata». In Obra crítica, vol. III. Buenos Aires: Suma de Letras Argentina, Punto de Lectura.
  • Carpentier, A. (1976). «De lo real maravilloso americano». Tientos y diferencias. Buenos Aires: Calicanto Editorial.
  • Franco, J. (2009). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (18.ª ed). Barcelona: Ariel.
  • García González, S. (2011). Yo tuve una cosa con el y no es un concepto. Originalidad y modernidad en la literatura mistica de Ernesto Cardenal. Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert.
  • Lezama Lima, J. (2005). La expresión americana. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
  • Lillo, G. & Renart, J. G. (ed.) (1997). Re-leer hoy a Gabriela Mistral: mujer, historia y sociedad en América Latina. Ottawa e Santiago: Université d’ Ottawa, Editorial Universidad de Santiago.

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

Continuous assessment - Two exames (each one 50%).(100%)

Subject matter

1. Hispano-American Modernism: Rubén Darío and «Azul...»
2. Feminist projects and literature written by women: short stories by Amanda Labarca and Leonora Carrington; and poetry by Gabriela Mistral and Enriqueta Ochoa.
3. The role of literature and the essay in the (re)construction of identities: «Ariel», by José Enrique Rodó; poetry by Nicolás Guillén and César Vallejo; «Canto General», by Pablo Neruda; and «El laberinto de la soledad», by Octavio Paz.
4. Tale, memory and narration: Augusto Monterroso, Mario Benedetti and Rosário Castellanos.
5. From the fantastic to the marvelous real: Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortázar.
6. The last few decades. The Publishing Boom. «Antología McOndo». «Manifiesto del Crack». New themes. The 21st Century: Guadalupe Nettel's short stories.