Module Identifier |
SP30510 |
Module Title |
SPANISH AMERICA 2-LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN ARGENTINA |
Academic Year |
2007/2008 |
Co-ordinator |
Mr Matthew Richards |
Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
Next year offered |
N/A |
Next semester offered |
N/A |
Pre-Requisite |
(Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 3 Spanish. |
Course delivery |
Lecture | 1 per week |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 4 per semester |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours Written exam. 2 essays in 2 hours | 70% |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: Essay 2000-2500 words | 30% |
Supplementary Exam | 1 x 2 hour examination if continuous assessment submitted. 1 x 3 hour examination if no continuous assessment submitted. | 100% |
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Learning outcomes
By the end of the module students will:
1) have an insight into major trends of Argentine history with particular references to the Anglo-Argentine Alliance and Peronism;
2) be able to relate key literary texts to their historical, social or cultural background;
3) be able to explian and evaluate literary texts with greater critical awareness
4) have had further developed skills in making
a) oral presentations
b) writing essays
Brief description
A brief introduction to Argentine society, followed by the detailed study of two representative but contrasting authors: Jose Hernandez and Jorge Luis Borges.
Argentina is perhaps the most European of all Latin American countries as a result of mass immigration and Europeanising policies adopted in the second half of the nineteenth century. This module offers a brief introduction to Argentine society, followed by detailed study of two representative but contrasting texts. Hernandez's 'Martin Fierro' was a defence of the local gaucho against the consequence of change, while Borges reflects the cosmopolitanism of twentieth-century Argentina. It is an advantage, but not a prerequisite, to have taken module SP20510.
Content
weeks 1-3 Argentina, 1852-1992.
weeks 4-5 Jose Hernandez, 'Martin Fierro'
weeks 6-11 The Prose Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
Reading Lists
Books
** Should Be Purchased
Jorge Luis Borges El Aleph
Alianza
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Alianza
** Essential Reading
Jose Hernández Martin Fierro
Catedra
** Supplementary Text
Amaral, Samuel. (1998.) The rise of capitalism on the pampas :the estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870 /Samuel Amaral.
Cambridge University Press 0521572487
Auyero, Javier. (2001.) Poor people's politics: Peronist survival networks and the legacy of Evita /Javier Auyero.
Duke University Press 0822326272
Ferns, H. S. (1977.) Britain and Argentina in the nineteenth century /by H[enry] S. Ferns.
Arno Press 0405097727
Grindle, Merilee Serrill. (2000.) Audacious reforms: institutional invention and democracy in Latin America /Merilee S. Grindle.
Johns Hopkins University Press 0801864208
Levitsky, Steven. (2003.) Transforming labor-based parties in Latin America :Argentine Peronism in comparative perspective /Steven Levitsky. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002067726.html
Cambridge University Press 0521816777
Plotkin, Mariano Ben (2003.) Manana es San Peron: a cultural history of Peron's Argentina /Mariano Ben Plotkin.
Scholarly Resources 0842050280
Rock, David (1975.) Argentina in the twentieth century
Duckworth 0715606484
Rock, David (1986.) Argentina, 1516-1982: from Spanish colonization to the Falklands War /David Rock.
Tauris 1850430136
Rock, David (1987.) Argentina, 1516-1987: from Spanish colonization to Alfons in /David Rock.
University of California Press 0520061780
Romero, Luis Alberto. (c2002 (2003 pri) A history of Argentina in the twentieth century /Luis Alberto Romero ; translated by James P. Brennan.
Pennsylvania State University Press 0271021918
Shumway, Nicolas. (c1991.) The invention of Argentina
University of California Press 0520069064ALKPAPER
Smith, Peter H (1969.) Politics and beef in Argentina; patterns of conflict and change /[by] Peter H. Smith.
Columbia University Press
(1993.) Argentina since independence /edited by Leslie Bethell.
Cambridge University Press 0521439884
(1972.) Historia argentina /[dirigida por Tulio Halperin Donghi].
Editorial Paidos
(1973.) Jose Hernandez :estudios reunidos en conmemoraci on del Centenario de El gaucho Mart in Fierro, 1872-1972.
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Faculdad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educaci on
(1998.) Peronism and Argentina /edited by James P. Brennan.
SR Books 0842027068
([1980]) Proyecto y construcci on de una naci on :Argentina, 1846-1880 /selecci on, pr ologo y cronolog ia, Tulio Halperin Donghi.
Biblioteca Ayacucho 8466000399
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6