As an introductory module, this programme of study seeks to expose students to a transatlantic understanding of the flows and contours of Spanish language, history and arts during the period comprising such a transatlantic relation (1492-present). It allows students to view this cultural and historical interconnection through a series of literary and cinematic counterpoints, which reconsiders Spanish and Latin American relations, past and present. This module provides a survey of the key movements and authors in Spanish and Spanish American history and literature. Students will be exposed to selected readings and cinematic texts ranging from Christopher Columbus's diaries from 1492 and Bernal Diaz del Castillo's accounts of the conquest of New Spain, as well as contemporary critical texts and films reappraising the Discovery and Conquest; the transatlantic literature produced in the 19th century when Spanish American countries gained their independence from Spain; transatlantic literature of conflict and revolution, from the time of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Latin American revolutions of the 1950s, 60s and 70s; and films from contemporary Spanish and Spanish America.