26021 - Spanish Women's Literature

Learning outcomes

The course has for object to deepen in the more interesting and meaningful themes in the Spanish American Literatures and, at the same time, to debate, with the active participation of the students, the most outstanding theoretical and methodological questions to them inherent.

El curso tiene por objeto profundizar en los temas de mayor interés y significación en las literaturas hispanoamericanas y al mismo tiempo debatir, con la activa participación de los estudiantes, las más relevantes cuestiones teóricas y metodológicas a ellos inherentes.

Course contents

Chronicle, Literary Journalism, Non-Fiction Novel

 

In his introduction to an extensive Antología de crónica latinoamericana actual, Dario Jaramillo Agudelo said: "The journalistic chronicle is the narrative prose reading more exciting and better written today in Latin America." Similar statements can be read in another anthology of newspaper reports which appeared almost simultaneously with the previous one, with the eloquent title: Mejor que ficción. Crónicas ejemplares. Meanwhile, Babelia, the literary supplement of El País, published soon after, with strong evidence, some pages crossed by the surprising headline: "Literature of the facts: the new boom of Latin American literature." Although similar to Dario Jaramillo assertions can be found, almost identical, in other major American Anthology (Literary Journalism), published more than fifteen years ago by Mark Kramer and Norman Sims, we must recognize that this literature has had a special development in Latin America, perhaps due to multiple outbreaks of violence, caused by, in countries like Mexico, the uncontrolled growth of organized crime. If, on the one hand, many journalists are, increasingly, dedicated to literature, it is also true that, on the other hand, a growing number of writers draws on the sources of chronicle. With this course we intend to study, through careful linguistic, stylistic and narratological analysis which differs a traditional chronicle of a literary chronicle and which presents characteristics "non-fiction" narrative call.

Readings/Bibliography

Textos

Carrión, Jorge

2011                     Mejor que ficción. Crónicas ejemplares, Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama;

Ibargüengoitia, Jorge

1977                     Las muertas, México, Joaquín Mortiz;

Jaramillo Agudelo, Darío (ed.)

2011                     Antología de crónica latinoamericana actual, México, Alfaguara;

Lorenzano, Sandra

2015                     La estirpe del silencio, México, Seix Barral (Grupo Planeta México);

Monsiváis, Carlos

1970                     Días de guardar, México, Era;

2009 [1994]         Los mil y un velorios. Crónica de la nota roja en México, México, Grijalbo-Proceso, Colección Momento de México, 7;

Montemayor, Carlos

1997 [1991]         Guerra en el paraíso, México, Seix Barral (Grupo Planeta México);

Poniatowska, Elena

2014 [1971]         La noche de Tlatelolco. Testimonios de historia oral, México, Era;

Walsh, Rodolfo

1990 [1972]         Operación masacre, Buenos Aires, Ediciones de la Flor;

 

 

Estudios

Chillón, Albert

2014                     La palabra fácticia. Literatura, periodismo y comunicación, Prólogos de Jordi Llovet y Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Pompeu Fabra i Universitat de València;

Herrscher, Roberto

2012                     Periodismo narrativo: cómo contar la realidad con las armas de la literatura, Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona;

Kramer Mark – Norman Sims (eds)

1995                     Literary Journalism, New York - Toronto, Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc.;

Wolfe, Tom

2012 [1973]         El nuevo periodismo, Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama;

 

 

Obras de referencia

Capote Truman, A sangre fría, Madrid, El País, 2002 (1966);

Mailer Norman, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History, New York, Penguin Books, 1994 [1968];

Mailer Norman, The Executioner’s Song, New York, Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group), 2012 [1979]

Talese Gay, The Literature of Reality, New York, Longman Publishing Group, 1995;

Teaching methods

The course includes , in addition to classroom teaching, the study in depht, with seminar mode, of some issues related to the studied sources, as well as of the instruments, theoretical and methodological, most relevant for their study.

Assessment methods

Students must prepare an essay (thesis) of 20 sheets, on average, on the topics of the course. The methods of composition of this essay will be presented by the teacher when the lessons will be about to end.

The oral examination will consist of an interview that will focus on the deepening and extension of the content of the work presented.

From the way in which the student will illustrate the arguments made in his essay will evaluate the methodological and critical skills acquired; he will have to prove at the same time, to have reached an adequate knowledge of the texts and topics discussed during the course.

An essay coherently developed, well-written, not without a certain interpretative perspicacity, accompanied by an oral discussion that shows, in addition to the above skills, a sure grasp of the language and of the scientific metalanguage used will lead to an assessment of excellence; the lack of one or more of the mentioned qualities, will lead to assessments that will translate into marks very good, good, discrete or sufficient; the test shall be deemed below the pass mark when, in addition to the inadequacy, thematic and expressive, of the essay, also the interview will be equally disappointing, both from the point of view of the knowledge acquired, and from that of presentation skills.

An essay inconsistent, ill-developed, poorly or not at all relevant to the themes covered in the course, or manifestly the result of copying and pasting, will not allow to be admitted to the oral test.

Teaching tools

We will apply, mainly, to the projection of texts, images and videos, prepared to the computer, with the possible software employement for the textual analysis.

Office hours

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