SPN2150

Hispanic American culture and civilisation

M Mascitti-Meuter

Not offered in 1999

8 points - 3 hours per week - First semester - Clayton - Prerequisites: SPN1020 or SPN1080

Objectives By the completion of the subject, students are expected to have developed a basic understanding of the history and politics of contemporary Hispanic America, as presented in the prescribed texts and films; and of the relationship between society and the authors' personal history as reflected in their works.

Synopsis This subject explores a variety of texts and films of twentieth-century Hispanic American writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes and Luisa Valenzuela to illustrate the various literary, socio-political and economic factors that have changed the face of Hispanic America this decade.

Assessment Written (3000 words): 60% - Examinations (2 hours): 40%

Prescribed texts

Skidmore and Smith Modern Hispanic America OUP
Chang Rodríguez and Filer Voces de hispanoamérica: Antología literaria 2nd edn, Heinle and Heinle 1996.

Recommended texts

Fuentes C Hispanic America: At war with the past. CBC Enterprises, 1985
Keen and Wasserman A history of Hispanic America Houghton Mifflin, 1988

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