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This course focuses on the emergence of Latin America in modern times. How did the distinct nations and cultures of Latin America develop out of Spain and Portugal's former territories? The foundational, tumultuous period from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century witnessed rebellions and revolts; independence and abolition; liberal reforms and revolutions; urbanization and the consolidation of national cultures. Students will give special consideration to the formation of political bodies in the nineteenth century and cultural identities in the twentieth century, all while considering the strategic means by which these processes effectively excluded or included large sectors of the population. Knowledge of this period in the region is crucial to understanding the world today. Taught in Spanish. Students may enroll in the related course SPANLANG 121 "Concurrent Writing Support" for one-on-one language learning. Emphasis is on style and diction, and on preparing, writing, and revising essays on related topics.

1800 to the mid 20th century. Topics include: romanticism; realism and its variants; the turn of the century; modernism and the avant garde; the Civil War; and the first half of the 20th century. Authors may include Mariano Jose de Larra, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Benito Perez Galdos, Jacint Verdaguer, Eca de Queiros, Miguel de Unamuno, Ramon de Valle-Inclan, Antonio Machado, and Federico García Lorca. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPANLANG 13 or equivalent.

This survey course on modern Brazilian literature, from the 20th and 21st centuries, includes poetry and narrative. We will read canonical authors such as Mario de Andrade, Clarice Lispector, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, as well as more contemporary and younger authors. Our approach connects literature, as well as music and visual arts, with history and society. The focus will be on how works invest in the formal aspects of literature while dialoging with the political and social issues of their times. Taught in English

The course will deal, from the analysis of some emblematic texts and other non-canonical ones, with the construction of imaginaries about nature, landscape and catastrophes in Mexican literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries. It will show how this construction is directly related to the imaginary of the nation and its complications and tensions. The program will begin with Alfonso Reyes and will end with Cristina Rivera Garza.

In this course we will watch and critique films made about Latin America's 20th century revolutions focusing on the Cuban, Chilean and Mexican revolutions. We will analyze the films as both social and political commentaries and as aesthetic and cultural works, alongside archivally-based histories of these revolutions.

Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.

Focus is on one of the most pivotal (and understudied) years of Iberian history, marked by the outbreak of both the Catalan Reaper's War and the Portuguese War of Restoration. Through primary sources including official documents, literary texts, and art, students will explore the causes, key events, and consequences of these interrelated conflicts. Of particular interest are the socio-political, cultural, and economic factors driving these uprisings, their impact on the broader European context, and their legacy in shaping modern Catalan and Portuguese nationhood. Authors include Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Alexandre de Ros, Francesc Fontanella, Luis de Gongora, Francisco Manuel de Melo, Francisco Quevedo, Jaume Romeu, Antonio de Saldanha, António de Sousa de Macedo, António Vieira, and Violante do Ceu. Readings in Catalan, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Taught in English.

Latin American and Spanish poetry approached through elements of craft. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on the formal elements of poetry (meter, rhythm, lineation, rhetorical figures and tropes) and the exploration of lyric subgenres (e.g. ode, elegy, prose poem). Students write original poems throughout the quarter. Poets include Borges, Burgos, J.R. Jiménez, Lorca, Mistral, Morejón, Neruda, Paz, Pizarnik, Sor Juana, and Storni, among others. No previous experience with creative writing required. Prerequisite: 100-level course in Spanish or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.