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Apr 25, 2024
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SPAN 157 SC - Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature: Nation, Family, and Romance
After the wars of Independence of the first half of the 19th century, Latin America’s most urgent concern was the development of new nations. One of the most interesting cultural representations of these nations “coming into being” was the historical romance or the national romance novel. During the course of the semester we will read several Latin American romances and we will study the “public function” of the romantic novel during this period of nation-building. We will analyze how passion, love, and marriage promoted harmony and order as well as the concept of “nation-family,” or the family as the projection of an ideal state. We will show how these novels contributed to contain the gender, racial, social, and economic conflicts that were imminent dangers to the utopian idea of the “natural family” on which national stability was based.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
Course Credit: 1.0
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