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 celebrates the diversity of women's writing from Latin America, drawing on a range of countries and genres. 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 facing women and women writers, such as essentialism, gendered roles and reproductive rights, through poetry, journalistic columns, short fiction and novels. The course also aims to foster the student's skills in reading, analysing and interpreting literary texts written in Spanish, as well as encouraging the student to go on and keep exploring for themself the richness of Latin American women's writing. |
| 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 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 20 |
| 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
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework:
40% 1,000-word commentary
60% 1,500-word essay |
| Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on their commentary and essay. |
| No Exam Information |
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]
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]
Short fiction by Spanish-American women, ed. Evelyn Fishburn (Manchester University Press, 1998)
Dossier of selected poems [poems supplied in Learn]
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 | Mrs Lina Gordyshevskaya
Tel:
Email: pgordysh@ed.ac.uk |
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