HISP 230

Catalog Description:

Students engage representative readings from Spanish American and Spanish Caribbean literatures from myths of origin in the pre-conquest period to the mid-twentieth century. The course examines the chronicles of conquest that set the tones for ongoing debates on the processes of coloniality. Through period texts, students consider debates on intellectual autonomy; regional and national identities; and the rights of indigeneous peoples, African descendants, and women in the new nations of the nineteenth century. The course ends with an emphasis on literatures that provide divergent gendered, sexual, racial, and political viewpoints. The course is multi-genre review that includes essay, chronicle, poetry, and testimony. Prerequisites SPAN 210 or 211.