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Spring 2009 Course |
Topics in 20th Century Literature
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Gayle Rogers
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This course will cover writings across five centuries from a wide range of contexts-New World conquests and the Black Legend, tourism religious missions, revolutions and mercenary work, Political activism, American immigration, and much more- that create a dialogue between English- and Spanish-language writers, thinkers, and ordinary citizens. Through fiction, personal narratives, and critical scholarship, we will ask most generally what happens when Anglophone and Hispanic authors portray one another; our theoretical explorations will branch out from the many problems (translation, representation, cosmopolitanism) that we'll encounter along the way. Students will contribute presentations and write a final paper that may engage questions of human rights theory, bilingual writing and education, or movements for cultural and linguistic autonomy, to name only a few of the robust topics that emerge from these texts. Students who are familiar with the Spanish versions of the texts below are welcome-indeed encouraged- to address them in their original language, abut all classroom texts will be in English.
