SPA 42100 The Spanish-American Regional Novel
(GE-CrsClt) Following their independence from Spain, the new nations of Spanish-America began to search for an identity that would distinguish them from their Spanish heritage, examining their unique geographic, racial, and social situations. In literature, this led first to criollismo, and then, in the mid-1920s, to regionalism. Novelistic production centered on the problems of modernity, continuing the 19th-century debate over "civilization versus barbarism," city life versus rural life, while also reflecting the new socio-historical context, which involved neo-colonialism, exploitation of workers, and the increasing influence of international capitalism. Two new genres arose: the "novela de la tierra" and "indigenista" literature. This course studies the historical and literary aspects of these impulses through the three most important novels of the land-La vorágine, Don Segundo Sombra, and Doña Bárbara, and one representative of indigenismo: Huasipungo. Taught in Spanish.
Credits
3
Offered
Intermittently.