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Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21G.716
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2007English
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This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America and Spain. Emphasis is on developing strategies for analyzing the genres of the novel, the short story, the poem, the fictional film, and the theatrical script. The novels read this semester are Magali García Ramis’s Felices días, Tío Sergio (1986, Puerto Rico) and Javier Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina (2001, Spain).

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