HISPANIC AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE

The teaching is part of the teaching courses characterizing the "Linguistic and Cultural Mediation" degree course and aims to provide students with conceptual and methodological tools in the field of Hispanic-American literatures and cultures.

The course has the following objectives:
1) to provide basic cultural and literary knowledges in the Hispanic-American context, as well as the ability to understand literary texts in the reference context;
2) to apply the acquired knowledges to the texts that will be analyzed in class;
3) to develop the ability to elaborate critical ideas in the field of study;
4) 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 and the knowledge of spanish language (B1 level).

Hispanic America: a hundred names, a hundred faces.
The course will be divided into three main parts:
1. At first, students will be presented with an introduction to the problem of the "name" in Hispanic America as an instrument of colonization of the imaginary and cultural domain, as well as an overview of the "faces" that characterize cultures and Hispano-American literatures and which, on the other hand, contribute to the emancipation of the continent.
2. In the second part of the course, will be presented the main historical figures who in the epochs of the "conquest" and the colony of Hispanic America, as well as in the twentieth century, constituted fundamental points of reference for linguistic mediation and cultural and literary translation as a strategy of construction and deconstruction of identity.
3. The third part will provide for the reading and critical-cultural analysis of a selection of Hispanic-American short stories of the twentieth century that are particularly significant in the literary and cultural fields.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
An anthology will be furnished during the course. It will contain selected texts written by the authors that will be considered in the course:
-Horacio Quiroga, “El almoadón de plumas”, in Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (1917)
_______________ “A la deriva”, in Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (1917)
-Miguel Ángel Asturias, "Leyenda de la Tatuana" in Leyendas de Guatemala (1930)
-Jorge Luis Borges, “Las ruinas circulares”, in Ficciones (1944).
-Julio Cortázar, “Casa tomada”, in Bestiario (1951)
_____________ “Lejana”, in Bestiario (1951)
-Elena Garro, "La culpa es de los Tlazclatecas" in La semana de colores (1964)

-Guadalupe Nettel, "Petalos" (2008)

CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Oviedo, Jose Miguel, "Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana", volumi III e IV, Madrid, Alianza, 1997.

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Barrera Lopez, Trinidad (coord.), "Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana", Madrid, Catedra, 2008.
Bellini, Giuseppe, "Nueva historia de la literatura hispanoamericana", Madrid, Castalia, 1997.
Lopez Baralt, Mercedes, "Para decir al Otro: Literatura y antropología en nuestra America", Madrid-Frankfurt am Maim: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005.

Knowledges about the cultural contexts and the literary poetics of Hispanic America in the considered periods, as well as the ability to understand literary texts, will be verified through a written final examination.

The lessons will be carried out according to the conventional method (frontal lessons) and will be held in Italian. The exam will consist of a written examination in Italian on the cultural and literary notions, authors and texts considered in the classroom.

Italian

More critical and teaching materials will be offer during the classes.

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