HISTORY OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN CULTURES

The teaching il part of the teaching courses characterizing the degree course of "Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences" and aims to provide students with methodological tools in the Latin American literary and cultural context. The teaching is included in the three curricula present in the course of study, that are the literary philological, the international political and language sciences.

The course has the following objectives:
1) to develop cultural and literary abilities in the Hispanic-American context, as well as to understand literary and essay texts in the field of reference;
2) to apply the knowledge and understanding skills to the texts that will be analyzed in the classroom, and to develop the ability to elaborate critical ideas in the field of study;
3) to elaborate autonomous judgments, including reflection on social, critical and literary issues in the Hispanic American context;
4) to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non specialists;
5) to develop the learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

The prerequisites to access the course are a good knowledge of the formal register, written and oral, of the Italian language.

The course aims to present important examples of Latin American culturals themes in . The course "Latin America: the history of an invention" will trace the broad outlines of the historical context underlying the cultural evolution of Latin American productions of XIX and XXth centuries, in its contradictory relationships of dependence and emancipation from the European context. The study of the salient features of the great aesthetic-literary currents and poetic forms, narratives and theatrical in their evolution will be addressed through the presentation of the authors and the analysis of the works of particular importance. The readingand the analysis in spanish language of parts taken from the planned works and anthological passages are scheduled.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Antologia di testi: Darcy Ribeiro, Cristóbal Colón, Bartolomé Las Casas, Hernán Cortés, Cabeza de Vaca, El Inca Garcilaso, José Martí, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosario Castellanos, Fernando Ortiz, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortázar, Luisa Valenzuela, Rigoberta Menchu, Rosario Ferré.
-Belli, Gioconda, La donna abitata, Roma, Edizioni E/O, 1999.
-Alejo Carpentier, Concierto barroco.
-José María Arguedas, Los ríos profundos.
-Gabriel García Márquez, El general en su laberinto.
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Beya.
-Mateo-Sagasta, Alfonso, Mala hoja.

CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Perassi, Emilia e Scarabelli, Laura (a cura di), Itinerari di cultura ispanoamericana; Ritorno alle origini e ritorno delle origini, Torino, UTET, 2011;
-Antonio Cornejo Polar, Escribir en el aire. Ensayo sobre la heterogeneidad socio- cultural en las literaturas andinas.

Any edition of the proposed texts is approved.

The exam consists of an interview mainly in Italian and will verify the contents of the form, the knowledge of the works studied with the support of the critical texts, as well as the historical and literary knowledge of centuries addressed (issues, evolutionary lines, main authors).

The teaching methods used will be frontal lessons mainly in Spanish, divided into two parts:
1) presentation of the author under study;
2) reading and analysis of the texts proposed in the bibliography.

Students must be present at the International Convention "Donne in fuga/ Mujeres en fuga" (29-30 November), and at the Round Table on Cuba (the date will be defined). Further conferences and meetings will be announced in the classroom.

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