SP 455: Spanish Survey of Latin-American Culture and Literature

This course conducted in Spanish, is a survey of the literature of Latin American from the inception to the present. Covers pre-Columbian and colonial literature through literature from the last two centuries. The material read will give an overview of the sociopolitical influences found within the works in terms of structure, style, and literary genre. This course also reviews basic literary movements from a Latin American standpoint such as romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism and their presuppositions upon literature. (For- merly SP 455 Survey of Spanish Literature)