Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature
21G.716 · Global Studies and Languages · Undergraduate · Fall 2007
Prof. Elizabeth Garrels
This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America and Spain. Emphasis is on developing strategies for analyzing the genres of the novel, the short story, the poem, the fictional film, and the theatrical script. The novels read this semester are Magali García Ramis’s <em>Felices días</em>, <em>Tío Sergio</em> (1986, Puerto Rico) and Javier Cercas’s <em>Soldados de Salamina</em> (2001, Spain). We will study Lorca’s play “La casa de Bernard…
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