| CODE | LAS2000 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies 2 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | H - Higher Level | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for the Liberal Arts and Sciences | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This Unit introduces the student to Spanish and Latin American social, political and cultural history through literature and the arts. The Unit uses literary texts, pop music, film and art as the means to explore and understand some of the most consequential junctures in Spanish and Latin American history. The Unit will cover the following epochs each of which will be studied by means of one canonical literary work or by other artistic forms: • Imperial Spain: Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque novel. • The Conquest of America: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s The Shipwrecked Men. • The Spanish Civil War: Camilo José Cela’s Family of Pascual Duarte. • Post-Colonial Latin America: Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. • Contemporary Spain and Latin America: Pop Music from the 1960s to the present. • Contemporary Spain and Latin America: Film: Bienvenido Mr Marshall (1952). • Contemporary Spain and Latin America: Politics, Society, and Art. NB: some of these topics may change exceptionally depending on staff availability. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the Unit the student will be able to: - Describe and discuss particular key historical moments in Spanish and Latin American histories and how they were portrait in literature and the arts; - Discuss social developments as they were construed in literature and the arts; - Analyse artistic expressions in contemporary and present-day Spanish and Latin American cultures; - Explain the main contemporary trends in Spanish culture in their social and historical contexts. 2. Skills: By the end of the Unit the student will be able to: - Describe cultural trends central to Spanish and Latin American history; - Analyse complex cultural expressions as the means to understand Spanish and Latin American social history. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Cela, Camilo José (2023). Family of Pascual Duarte. Dallas: Dalkey Archive Press. - García Márquez, Gabriel (2014). Chronicle of a Death Foretold. London: Penguin. - Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (2003). London: Penguin. - Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar (2007). The Shipwrecked Men. London: Penguin. - Bienvenido Mr Marshall, Accessible with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZ7mqhlCAw Supplementary Readings: - Ardila, J. A. Garrido (2015), ‘Origins and Definition of the Picaresque Genre’, in J A G Ardila (ed.), The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature. From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-23. - Ardila, J. A. Garrido (2019), ‘The Literature of Renaissance Spain’, in Hilaire Kallendorf (ed.), A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance. Amsterdam: Renaissance Society of America and Brill. 383-406. |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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