Undergraduate Course: 20th Century Latin American Women's Writing (ELCH10021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 women's writing from Latin America, based mainly around the novel but also incorporating some short stories and journalism. 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 in particular, such as ghettoization and l'écriture feminine through styles ranging from lyrical and erotic to black humour and biting social criticism. The course also aims to develop the student's skills in reading, analysing and interpreting literary texts written in Spanish, as well as encouraging the student to go on and explore for her/himself the enormous wealth and diversity of Latin American literature. |
| Course description |
The course covers works from Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Nicaragua.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required. |
| Additional Costs | Primary course texts, approx. 60 Pounds |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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
Leopoldo Lugones, ¿El problema feminista¿ (1919) [pdf in Learn]
Dossier of poems chosen from: Adela Zamudio (Bolivia) ¿Nacer hombre¿; Consuelo Hernández (Colombian American) ¿La inmigrante¿ from Poemas migrantes; Victoria Santa Cruz (Peru) ¿Me gritaron negra¿; Ida Vitale (Uruguay) ¿La palabra¿; Gabriela Mistral (Chile) ¿La otra¿ from Tala; Lagar; Raquel Rivas Rojas (Venezuela) ¿Abandonos¿ [poems supplied in Learn]
Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) ¿ Selection from Intervenciones; Bocetos femeninos from Alfonsina Storni, Obras (Buenos Aires: Losada, 2002) Volume/Tomo II, pp. 789-1007 [scanned in Learn]
Rosario Castellanos (Mexico), ¿Lección de cocina¿ from Short fiction by Spanish-American women, ed. Evelyn Fishburn (Manchester University Press, 1998)
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 |
10 2 hour 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 Kat Zabecka
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: K.Zabecka@ed.ac.uk |
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