Hispanic and European Studies Program

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1 Course title: Barcelona and the Latin American Boom Language of instruction: English Professor: Camilo Hoyos Gómez Professor s contact and office hours: Course contact hours: 45 h Recommended credit: 3 US credits-5 ECTS credits Course prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course Language requirements: Good understanding of written Spanish Course description: The course aims to study the cultural origins of the so-called Boom Latinoamericano, with special attention to the fact of Barcelona being the Iberian publishing capital that allowed and enhanced the diffusion of Latin American literature during the decade of the 1960 s. Throughout the reading and analysis of novels from 3 of its most representative authors (Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez) the course will establish, recognize and understand the motives than allowed the cultural and publishing doors of Spain and thus Europe to open to Latin American literary production. Learning objectives: At the end of this course the students will be able to: -Identify the origin and main features of the Latin American literature of the boom. -Understand the importance of the publishing market in regard to the literary piece of work. -Understand the importance of Barcelona as the capital of mid XXth century publishing Spain. -Make use of literary tools for the analysis and understanding of a novel/literary text. -Understand the cultural relation between Spain and Latin America throughout the second half of the XX Century. 1 Course workload: Readings of excerpts from novels; lectures regarding literary analysis; active discussions; final paper. Methods of instruction: The class is designed as a place for dialogue, discussion and participation. The professor will be responsible for presenting and setting up the course contents, but the development of such topics will demand the students active participation. Students will be asked to read the texts for the class beforehand so that there will always be a common topic for discussion. Furthermore, the course suggests a meeting point of the Spanish and English and, for this reason, classes will be given in English, but the readings will be done in the original language, which, in most of the cases, will be Spanish. The course will also schedule field trips to visit the most representative Barcelona cafes,

2 where mid XX Century Latin American as erll as Spanish and Catalan intellectuals met. Method of assessment: Active participation in class and the development and presentation of the final paper/project will be evaluated. Participation: 20% Final paper proposal: 15% Final project: 25% Final Paper: 40% Absence policy: Attendance to class is mandatory and will be daily monitored by professors. Missing classes will impact on the student s final grade as it follows: Absences Up to two (2) absences Three (3) absences Four (4) absences Five (5) absences or more Penalization Two absences are permitted and not penalized. -1 point out of final grade (on a /10 scale) -2 points out of final grade (on a /10 scale) The student receives an INCOMPLETE for the course 2 The HESP attendance policy does not distinguish between justified or unjustified absences. The student is responsible to manage his/her absences around the two permitted ones. Emergency situations (hospitalization, family emergency ) will be analyzed on a case by case basis by the Academic Director o the HESP. Classroom norms: - No food or drink is permitted in class - Students will have a ten-minute break after one one- hour session Weekly schedule: WEEK 1 Latin American literature of the XX Century before the boom: Paris, the Latin-American Destination and the foundations of latin american literary identity. Reading: Wilson, Jason. Spanish American Narrative, WEEK 2 The origins of magical realism: Alejo Carpentier and Surrealism. Excerpts from: Carpentier, Alejo. On the Marvelous Real in America (1949). The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975)

3 WEEK 3 The reception of Juan Rulfo s novel and short-story Excerpts from Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo. Gyurko, Lanin A. Rulfo's Aesthetic Nihilism: Narrative Antecedents of Pedro Páramo Clark D'Lugo, Carol, Pedro Páramo: The Reader's Journey through the Text WEEK 4 Rulfo s short stories. Rulfo, The Burning Plain and other Stories [El llano en llamas] Film Screening: Padro Páramo, Carlos Velo WEEK 5 Carlos Barral and the Premio Biblioteca Breve of 1963: the arrival of Latin American Literature in Spain Excerpts from: Vargas Llosa, Mario. The time of the Hero [La ciudad y los perros] Mayder Dravasa, Seix-Barral: the birth of a publishing industry. Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro, Consuming Aesthetics: Seix Barral and José Donoso in the Field of Latin American Literary Production King, John. The Boom of the Latin American Novel 3 WEEK 6 Rayuela, by Julio Cortázar: a European reading. Excerpts from Cortázar, Julio Hopscotch. Simpkins, Scott. "The Infinite Game": Cortázar's Hopscotch" Kerr, Lucille. Interview: Julio Cortázar WEEK 7 Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez: the mythical Latin America. Excerpts from: García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude Boldy, Steven, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. WEEK 8 García Márquez life: inside and outside his fiction. Martin, Gerald. Gabriel García Márquez: A Life. García Márquez, Gabriel. Living to Tell the Tale Screening of Documentary Gabriel García Márquez, Yves Billon, 1998.

4 WEEK 9 Conversación en la catedral by Mario Vargas Llosa: the dictatorship in Latin America. Excerpts from Vargas Llosa, Mario. Conversation in the Cathedral and The Dream of the Celt Corral, Will H. Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, and Spanish-American Literary History Sara Castro-Klarén, Conversation in the Cathedral: Descent into Hell WEEK 10 Barcelona as the Latin American epicenter of the boom. Excerpts from Donoso, José. The boom in Spanish American literature: a personal history WEEK 11 Field trip to locations where Latin American writers experienced Barcelona as the publishing capital of Spain. (Last revision: November ) Required readings: -Course reading pack prepared by professor. -Excerpts from mentioned novels. 4 Recommended bibliography: Menton, Seymour. The Spanish American Short Story: A Critical Anthology, University of California Press, Bethel, Leslie. A Cultural History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press, Ching, Erik Kristofer. Reframing Latin America: a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. University of Texas Press, Giordano, Enrique A. Play and Playfulness in García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Vol. 42, No. 4 (1988), pp Levinson, Brett. The ends of literature: the Latin American "boom" in the neoliberal marketplace. Stanford University Press, Harrs, Luis Los nuestros. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana. Joset, Jacques Historias cruzadas de novelas de novelas hispanoamericanas. Madrid: Iberoamericana. Langowski, Gerald J El surrealismo en la ficción hispanoamericana. Madrid: Gredos. General Bibliography: Boldy, Steven, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel

5 García Márquez. The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Novel. Efraín Kristal, ed. Cambridge University Press. Castro- Klarén, Sara Understanding Vargas Llosa, Univ. of South Carolina Press. Clark D'Lugo, Carol Pedro Páramo: The Reader's Journey through the Text, Hispania Vol. 70, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp Corral, Will H Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, and Spanish-American Literary History in American Literary History Vol. 4, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp Cortázar, Julio Hopscotch. New York, Pantheon. Donoso, José. The boom in Spanish American literature: a personal history. Columbia University Press in association with the Center for Inter-American Relations, 1977 Dravasa, Mayder The boom in Barcelona: literary modernism in Spanish and Spanish-American Fiction. Peter Lang. García Márquez, Gabriel Living to Tell the Tale. Random House One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, Penguin. Gyurko, Lanin A Rulfo's Aesthetic Nihilism: Narrative Antecedents of Pedro Páramo in Hispanic Review Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn, 1972), pp Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro, Consuming Aesthetics: Seix Barral and José Donoso in the Field of Latin American Literary Production in MLN, Vol. 115, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 2000), pp Kerr, Lucille, et al Interview: Julio Cortázar in Diacritics, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter, 1974), pp King, John, The Boom of the Latin American Novel, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Novel. Efraín Kristal, ed. Cambridge University Press. Martin, Gerald Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, Bloomsbury. Parkinson Zamora, Parkinson; Faris, Wendy B., Eds Magical realism: theory, history, community. Duke University Press. Rulfo, Juan The burning plain and other stories. University of Texas Press. Pedro Páramo, New York, Grove, Simpkins, Scott "The Infinite Game": Cortázar's Hopscotch" in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp Vargas Llosa, Mario Conversation in the Cathedral, Harper and Row. Wilson, Jason Spanish American Narrative, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Culture. John King, Editor. Cambridge University Press. 5