SPAN 569 Spanish American Modernismo and its Legacy
This seminar is an introduction to Spanish America's first autonomous cultural and literary movement. Through readings of modernista poetry, chronicles, short stories and novels, the course explores some of the central issues surrounding cultural production in Spanish America at the end of the nineteenth and the turn of the twentieth-centuries. We will discuss texts by authors such as Delmira Agustini, Rubén Darío, Julián del Casal, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones, José Martí, José Enrique Rodó and José Asunción Silva while focusing on topics including cultural independence, modernity, cosmopolitanism, the role of art and the artist in the capitalist world, religion, urbanization, individualism and self-representation. The seminar will also explore the legacy of modernismo in twentieth-century Latin American culture, focusing on its impact in musical genres such as bolero and its imprint in novels by Alejo Carpentier, Luis Rafael Sánchez and Germán Espinosa. In Spanish. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite
Graduate Students Only