COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

The teaching is part of the minor course dedicated to history and culture of women. This minor course includes the teachings of Chinese, Hispanic-American and Italian.

The course "Women in Latin America: history and culture (XIX-XX centuries)" aims to pursue the following results:
1) provide an in-depth analysis of the problems related to the formation of Latin American nations since the XIXth century through the voices of women (authors and literary figures).
2) provide some basic critical and methodological cultural and literary tools, aimed at students' acquisition of text comprehension and analysis skills that help independent judgment.
3) encourage the consolidation of comprehension and communication skills in an appropriate critical language.

This is a free choise course, so that the prerequisites required to attend it are an adequate knowledge of the formal register of the Italian language and a motivated interest in the topics covered.

The course "Women in Latin America: history and culture (XIX-XX centuries)" will trace the broad outlines of the cultural context underlying the Spanish-American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in its evolution toward cultural un'autonimia. The study of the salient features of the great aesthetic-literary currents and poetic forms, narratives and theatrical in their evolution will complement some insights of authors and authors of particular importance.
We will be analyzed themes and issues on cultural identity configured between memory and narrative, in literary and critical texts proposed.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Belli, Gioconda, La donna abitata, Roma, Edizioni E/O, 1999.
-Sofocle, "Antigona", Milano: Feltrinelli, 1987
-Antonio Melis, "Voci e silenzi nella letteratura ispanoamericana", Roma: collana Guida Bibliografica, 1992
- Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz, "Risposta a Suor Filotea", Torino: La rosa, 1980
-Juana Inés de la Cruz, "Versi d'amore e di circostanza", Torino: Einaudi 1995
- Elizabeth Burgos, "Mi chiamo Rigoberta Menchù", Milano: Giunti, 1982
-Margo Glantz, "La nudità come naufragio", Milano: Mimesis edizioni 2015
- Milton Fernández, "Donne, pazze, sognatrici, rivoluzionari". Milano: Rayuela 2015
-Jessa Crispin, "Perché non sono femminista. Un manifesto femminista", Roma: Edizioni Sur 2018
-Frida, selection of works

The exam consists of an interview mainly in Spanish that will verify the contents of the form, the knowledge of the works studied with the support of the critical texts.
An integral part of the oral exam will be an analysis of a text pertaining to the program, which will be given an indication to class. The paper (4-5 pages) will be delivered to the teacher at the end of the course and its outcome will feed into the final evaluation.
The exam will test the knowledge of the literary history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the scheduled works, the ability to understand a literary text and to use critical and methodological tools to analyze it, the oral presentation and written communication skills, reflection autonomous on themes and texts treated.

The teaching methods adopted include the presentation of the authors and the discussion of the proposed texts and of the criticism included in the program, througth the problem of identity and gender issues dealt with.

Students must be present at the initiatives organized by Latin American chair and communicated during the course.

written and oral