Those who remained, however, cloaked their literary discourse on war, repression and other themes in an array of new narrative forms and languages. This course analyzes the most significant works of this period, both in terms of their literary innovativeness and their relationship to the sociocultural context. Back to Top 474 Contemporary Spanish Theater A. Johnson Thorugh close study of representative dramatists and their respective visions, this course acquaints the student with major formal and thematic developments in contemporary peninsular Spanish theater. This course is a close study of the Hispanic literature of the island nations of the Caribbean, with particular attention paid to ethnic and cultural diversity. Representative authors in the various genres are studied within the general framework of their social and literary contexts.
Emphasis is placed on contemporary writers.
This course offesrs critical study of selected contemporary Latin-American texts in the light of current modes of writing and interpretation. The course delineates the major patterns of formal and thematic development within the literary history of Latin-American letters, but emphasizes the analysis of structural and linguistic problems posed by the texts. This seminar, offered on an irregular basis, provides an opportunity for extensive study of the works of the most distinguished authors writing in the Spanish language. It is taught by a staff member who has particular interest in the literature to be examined. Copyright 1997 Colgate University.