Undergraduate Course: 20th Century Latin American Women's Writing (ELCH10021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course aims to give the student knowledge of a representative sample of twentieth-century women's writing from Latin America, based mainly around the novel but also incorporating some short stories. In limiting the course material by gender, the focus will be on giving the student insight into, and understanding of, key cultural and theoretical issues regarding the woman writer, such as ghettoisation and l'ecriture feminine. |
| Course description |
The course covers works from Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Nicaragua.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required. |
| Additional Costs | Primary course texts, approx. 60 Pounds |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 18 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
171 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formative assessment : one essay plan.
Summative assessment : 30% coursework literature essay of 1500 words; 70% 2-hour exam consisting of 2 essays. Students may not write in the exam on material covered by their coursework. |
| Feedback |
Students will receive formative written feedback on their essay plan, and written feedback on their essays. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demostrate their skills in reading, analysing and interpreting literature in Spanish and gain the necessary skills to discuss issues relating specifically to women's writing in a theoretically sophisticated and informed manner.
- Contrast different ways in which Latin American women writers have addressed questions of gender and writing and be able to offer from their readings of the prescribed texts observations about the appropriateness of various feminist models and theories in the diverse Latin American context.
- Present the above in written and oral form, with reference to a broad range of secondary sources.
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Reading List
Short fiction by Spanish-American women, ed. Evelyn Fishburn (Manchester University Press, 1998) [Comprises 5 short stories by María Luisa Bombal (Chile), Armonía Somers (Uruguay), Rosario Castellanos (Mexico), Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico) and Silvina Ocampo (Argentina), plus introduction and critical material]
Rosario Castellanos Balún Canán (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004)
Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina) Novela negra con argentinos (Sudamericana, 1991)
Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua) La mujer habitada (Emecé/Seix Barral, 2006)
Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) Elena sabe (Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2007)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
20 tutorials. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Tel: (0131 6)50 8303
Email: f.j.mackintosh@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Fiona Jack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: f.jack@ed.ac.uk |
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