{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-28T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T21:03:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPAN364: \u201cSurvey of Spanish-American Literature to the 1820s\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Timetable:<\/em> MWF, 10am-11am, Swing 305.<\/p>\n<p><em>Description:<\/em> This course is designed to provide the student with a survey of Spanish American literature from the conquest to the independence period.\u00a0 The classes will focus not only on specific literary texts and their authors, but will also examine the various genres and the historical and political context(s) within which the texts are situated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assessment:<\/em> One mid-term examination (30%) and one written examination at the end of the semester (40%).\u00a0 You will also be required to write a blog response on the reading each week, with the tag \u201cspan364,\u201d and comment on the responses of two of your classmates; this, plus attendance and participation, will constitute the final 30% of your grade.<\/p>\n<p><em>Set texts:<\/em> The set texts below are available either at the bookstore or via photocopy.\u00a0 You must read them in advance of the relevant classes, write your blog entry, and bring a copy of the text to class each week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, <em>Naufragios<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, <em>Brev\u00edsima relaci\u00f3n de la destrucci\u00f3n de las Indias<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, <em>Comentarios reales<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz, selections<\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez de Lizardi, <em>El periquillo sarniento<\/em>, selections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Further reading:<\/em> There is an immense amount written on Latin American literature, history, and culture.\u00a0 The following are starting points only, but they indicate further directions for study.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brading, D. A.\u00a0 <em>The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867<\/em>.\u00a0 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Franco, Jean.\u00a0 <em>An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 Third Edition.\u00a0 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Greenblatt, Stephen, ed.\u00a0 <em>New World Encounters<\/em>.\u00a0 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Pratt, Mary Louise.\u00a0 <em>Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Routledge, 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Rama, Angel.\u00a0 <em>La ciudad letrada<\/em>.\u00a0 Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1984.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Swanson, Philip, ed.\u00a0 The Companion to Latin American Studies.\u00a0 London: Arnold, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Course convenor: Jon Beasley-Murray (jon.beasley-murray@ubc.ca).\u00a0 <em>His office hours are Mondays, 3:30pm-5:30pm, BuTo 808<\/em>.\u00a0 You should feel free to get in touch with him if you have any queries or problems.\u00a0 It is always better to deal with problems when they arise than to keep quiet and hope they go away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPAN364: \u201cSurvey of Spanish-American Literature to the 1820s\u201d Timetable: MWF, 10am-11am, Swing 305. Description: This course is designed to provide the student with a survey of Spanish American literature from the conquest to the independence period.\u00a0 The classes will focus not only on specific literary texts and their authors, but will also examine the various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span364\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}