SPN 418 - Spanish-American Novel

1 semester, 3 Credits

This course studies the development of the Spanish-American novel through 1950 focusing on issues of colonization, political, economic and cultural independence, identity, gender, and race. Texts may include: Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab, Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo. Prerequisites: SPN 321 and 322.