Conducted in English. Treats novels, theory, cinema. Explores the implied dialogue or struggle of women writers with a male tradition. Conducted in Spanish. Hours to be arranged.
Primary texts alternate with interpretive theories.
Conducted in English. The explosion of narrative creativity in Spanish America during the 1960s and 1970s will be the subject of this course. Readings of now classic works by Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Cortazar, Cabrera Infante, among others will alternate with theoretical questions of representation and ethics in works by Derrida, Blanchot, Levinas, Lyotard, Vattimo, Wittgenstein, and Cavell. Conducted in Spanish. Reading and films based on novels raise theoretical questions about why erotic romance became the vehicle for political resolutions.