HISPANIC AMERICAN LITERATURE 1/2

The course is part of the master's degree program "European, American and Post-colonial Languages ​​and Literatures", and is a characterizing lesson on the Iberian curicculum. The teaching is also characterized by the double title in Estudios Ibéricos and Iberoamericanos

The course objectives are as follows:
1) to strengthen the knowledge and understanding of the Hispanic American cultures and literatures acquired in the first cycle, as well as to elaborate and apply original ideas in the field of Hispanic American studies;
2) to develop skills in analyzing new or non-familiar topics, embedded in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts related to the Hispanic American area;
3) to make judgments on cultural and literary issues based on limited or incomplete information by using knowledge acquired;
4) to communicate clearly and without ambiguity their conclusions, as well as their knowledge, to specialists and non-specialists;
5) to develop learning abilities that allow them to continue studying mostly self-directed or autonomous.

The prerequisites to access the course are the knowledge of the culture and history of the Latin American continent and the knowledge of the Spanish language (level C1).

The course "Travels between plural writing and migrant readings" focuses on Hispanic American culture through reading, analyzing and commenting on the texts of the 20th and 21st centuries.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-J.L. Borges, “El escritor argentino y la tradición” (1953), “Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz” (1944), “El fin” (1953).
-Juan Carlos Onetti, “Ella” (1953).
-Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (1967).
-Elena Poniatwoska, Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969).
-Osvaldo Soriano, Triste, solitario y final (1976).
-Manuel Puig, El beso de la mujer araña (1976).
-Juan José Saer, Las nubes (1997).
-Rigoberta Menchú, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la memoria (1983).
-Martín Kohan, “Eric Grieg” (1988).
-César Aira, Ema la cautiva; Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero (2000).
-Luisa Valenzuela, “Cuentos de Hades”
-Diamela Eltitt, Lumpérica (1983).
-Jorge Consiglio, “Diagonal Sur” (2016).
-Liliana Colanzi, Nuestro mundo muerto (2016).
-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017).

CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
-Susanna Regazzoni, Osvaldo Soriano. La añoranza de la aventura. Una perspectiva exterior, Buenos Aires, Katatay Ediciones, 2017.
-Carlos Altamirano, Peronismo y cultura de izquierda, México, siglo XXI Editores, 2011.
-Jorgelina Corbatta, Mito personal y mitos colectivos en las novelas de Manuel Puig, Madrid, Rd. Orígenes, 1988.
-Cesare Segre, “Il tempo curvo di García Márquez” in I segni e la critica, Torino

The exam consists of an interview mainly in Spanish 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 examination also consists in the drafting of a written essay to complement the oral exam.

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

Italian

Students are required to participate in the initiatives organized by Latin American chair and which will be given news in class.

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