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Hispanic and European Studies Program

Hispanic and European Studies Program- Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Course title: The Time of the City: Barcelona and 20th Century Latin

American Literature

Language of instruction: English

Professor: Camilo Hoyos Gmez

Professors contact and office hours: [email protected]

Course contact hours: 45

Recommended credit: 3 US credits-5 ECTS credits

Course prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course

Language requirements: None

Course focus and approach: The course aims to study the culturalorigins of the so-called Boom Latinoamericano, with special attentionto the fact of Barcelona being the Iberian publishing capital that

allowed and enhanced the diffusion of Latin American literatureduring the decade of the 1960s.

Course description: Throughout the reading and analysis ofexcerpts form novels from 3 of its most representative authors (JulioCortzar, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garca Mrquez) the coursewill establish, recognize and understand the motives than allowed thecultural and publishing doors of Spain and thus Europe to open toLatin American literary production.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this course the students will be able to:-Identify the origin and main features of the Latin American literatureof the boom.-Understand the importance of the publishing market in regard to theliterary piece of work.-Understand the importance of Barcelona as the capital of mid XXthcentury publishing Spain.-Make use of literary tools for the analysis and understanding of anovel/literary text.-Understand the cultural relation between Spain and Latin Americathroughout the second half of the XX Century.

Course workload: Readings of excerpts from novels; lectures

regarding literary analysis; active discussions; final paper.

Teaching methodology: The class is designed as a place fordialogue, discussion and participation. The professor will beresponsible for presenting and setting up the course contents, but thedevelopment of such topics will demand the students activeparticipation. Students will be asked to read the texts for the classbeforehand so that there will always be a common topic for

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Assessment criteria:

Active participation in class and the development and presentation of

the final paper/project will be evaluated.

Participation: 20%Article presentation : 15%Final Paper Outline/ Midterm evaluation: 25%Final Paper: 40%

Absence policy

After the add/drop day, all registrations are considered final andHESP Absence Policy begins to apply. For the academic year 2011-2012, such policy is as follows:

Attending class is mandatory and will be monitored daily byprofessors. Missing classes will impact on the students final grade asfollows:

Absences Penalization

Up to two (2) absences No penalizationThree (3) absences 1 point subtracted from final

grade (on a 10 point scale)Four (4) absences 2 points subtracted from

final grade (on a 10 pointscale)

Five (5) absences or more The student receives anINCOMPLETE (NOPRESENTAT)for the course

The PEHE/HESP attendance policy does not distinguish betweenjustified or unjustified absences. The student is deemedresponsible to manage his/her absences.

Emergency situations (hospitalization, family emergency...) will beanalyzed on a case by case basis by the Academic Director of theHESP.

Classroom norms:- No food or drink is permitted in class- Students will have a ten-minute break after one one- hour session

Weekly schedule

WEEK 1Session 1: Latin American literature of the XX Century before theboom:Paris, the Latin-American Destination and the foundations of LatinAmerican literary identity.


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Reading: Wilson, Jason. Spanish American Narrative, 1920-1970Session 2: The origins of magical realism: Alejo Carpentier andSurrealism.Readings:Excerpts from:

Carpentier, Alejo. The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975)

WEEK 2Session 3: The reception of Juan Rulfos novel and short-storyReadings:Excerpts from Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Pramo.Session 4: Gyurko, Lanin A. Rulfo's Aesthetic Nihilism: NarrativeAntecedents of Pedro PramoClark D'Lugo, Carol ,Pedro Pramo: The Reader's Journey throughthe Text

WEEK 3Session 5: Mario Vargas Llosa and the new Latin American NovelCarlos Barral and the Premio Biblioteca Breve of 1963Readings:Mayder Dravasa, Seix-Barral: the birth of a publishing industry.Session 6: Discussion on excerpts from The time of the Hero [Laciudad y los perros]

WEEK 4Session 7: Excerpts from The time of the Hero [La ciudad y losperros]Session 8: King, John. The Boom of the Latin American Novel

WEEK 5Session 9: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Nobel PrizeSession 10: Conclusions on Vargas Llosa

WEEK 6Session 11: Hopscotch, by Julio Cortzar: a European reading.Excerpts from Cortzar, Julio, Hopscotch.Session 12: Discussion on Alazraki, Jaime, Towards the Last Squareof the Hopscotch

WEEK 7Session 13: Discussion on Excerpts from HopscotchSession 14: Vargas Llosa, The Trumpet of DeyCorral, Will H. Cortzar, Vargas Llosa, and Spanish-AmericanLiterary History

WEEK 8Session 15: Reading Simpkins , Scott. "The Infinite Game":Cortzar's Hopscotch"Session 16: Discussion Kerr, Lucille. Interview: Julio Cortzar


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WEEK 9Session 17: Cien aos de soledad by Gabriel Garca Mrquez: themythical Latin America.

Readings:Excerpts from: Garca Mrquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years ofSolitudeSession 18: Discussion Boldy, Steven, One Hundred Years ofSolitude by Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

WEEK 10Session 19: Discussion on excerpts from: Garca Mrquez, Gabriel.One Hundred Years of SolitudeSession 20: Screening of Documentary Gabriel Garca Mrquez, YvesBillon, 1998.

WEEK 11Session 21: Discussion on historical significance on Garca Mrquez,One Hundred Years of SolitudeSession 22: Discussion of Martin, Gerald. Gabriel Garca Mrquez: ALife: Melquades the Magician: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Last revision: May 2011

Required readings:-Course reading pack prepared by professor.

Recommended bibliography:

Bloom, Harold, Ed. Julio Cortzar. Infobase Publishing, 2005Standish, Peter. Understanding Julio Cortzar. University of SouthCarolina Press, 2001.

Menton, Seymour. The Spanish American Short Story: A CriticalAnthology, University of California Press, 1982.

Bethel, Leslie. A Cultural History of Latin America. Cambridge

University Press, 1998.

Ching, Erik Kristofer. Reframing Latin America: a cultural theoryreading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. University of TexasPress, 2007.

Giordano, Enrique A. Play and Playfulness in Garca Mrquez' OneHundred Years of Solitude. Rocky Mountain Review of Language andLiterature Vol. 42, No. 4 (1988), pp. 217-229

Levinson, Brett. The ends of literature: the Latin American "boom" in

the neoliberal marketplace. Stanford University Press, 2001.


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Harrs, Luis. 1967. Los nuestros. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana.

Joset, Jacques. 1982. Historias cruzadas de novelas de novelashispanoamericanas. Madrid: Iberoamericana.

Langowski, Gerald J. 1982. El surrealismo en la ficcinhispanoamericana. Madrid: Gredos.

General Bibliography:

Boldy, Steven, 2005. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel

Garca Mrquez. The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Novel.Efran Kristal, ed. Cambridge University Press. Castro-Klarn, Sara.1992. Understanding Vargas Llosa, Univ. of

South Carolina Press.

Clark D'Lugo, Carol. 1987. Pedro Pramo: The Reader's Journeythrough the Text, Hispania Vol. 70, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 468-474

Corral, Will H. 1992. Cortzar, Vargas Llosa, and Spanish-AmericanLiterary History in American Literary History Vol. 4, No. 3 (Autumn,1992), pp. 489-516.

Cortzar, Julio. 1987. Hopscotch. New York, Pantheon.

Donoso, Jos. The boom in Spanish American literature:a personal history. Columbia University Press in association with theCenter for Inter-American Relations, 1977

Dravasa, Mayder. 2005. The boom in Barcelona: literary modernismin Spanish and Spanish-American Fiction. Peter Lang.

Garca Mrquez, Gabriel. 2004. Living to Tell the Tale. Random House2000.One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, Penguin.

Gyurko, Lanin A. 1972. Rulfo's Aesthetic Nihilism: NarrativeAntecedents of Pedro Pramo in Hispanic Review Vol. 40, No. 4(Autumn, 1972), pp. 451-466

Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro, 2000. Consuming Aesthetics: SeixBarral and Jos Donoso in the Field of Latin American LiteraryProduction in MLN, Vol. 115, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 2000), pp.323-339

Kerr, Lucille, et al. 1974.Interview: Julio Cortzar in Diacritics, Vol.

4, No. 4 (Winter, 1974), pp. 35-40


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King, John, 2005. The Boom of the Latin American Novel, TheCambridge Companion to Latin American Novel. Efran Kristal, ed.Cambridge University Press.

Martin, Gerald. 2008. Gabriel Garca Mrquez: A Life, Bloomsbury.Parkinson Zamora, Parkinson; Faris, Wendy B., Eds. 1995. Magicalrealism: theory, history, community. Duke University Press.

Rulfo, Juan. 1967. The burning plain and other stories. University ofTexas Press.

Pedro Pramo, New York, Grove, 1994.

Simpkins , Scott. 1990. "The Infinite Game": Cortzar's Hopscotch" inThe Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 23, No.1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 61-74

Vargas Llosa, Mario. 1975. Conversation in the Cathedral, Harper andRow.

Wilson, Jason. 2004. Spanish American Narrative, 1920-1970 TheCambridge Companion to Latin American Culture. John King, Editor.Cambridge University Press.

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