Module Information

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 1800-2000. 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 Jose Marti's accounts of the relationship of Spain with the Americas, to critical Spanish texts of the period, to films from both Spain and Spanish America.

Films and Literature to be studied:

Spanish America

1. Marti, Jose (1892) 'Nuestra America', in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York, 10 de enero de
1891 and El Partido Liberal, Mexico, 30 de enero de 1891 (photocopied handout)

2. Rulfo, Juan (1953), Pedro Paramo, Catedra, Letras Hispanicas, ISBN 978-84-376-0418-3

3. La historia oficial (Dir: Luis Puenzo's, 1982, Argentina)

Spain

1. Key text from 19th century newspapers and text from Unamuno, Valera, Azorin, Maeztu, Machado. (photocopied handout)

2. Jose Luis Garci's Historia de un beso (2002)
This film is digitized in the LRC. The film has to be seen in the LRC premises (Hugh
Owen building) http://www.aber.ac.uk/language-centre/euro_lang/spanish/sp_3.shtml also available at the Library: classmark DVD PN1997.2.H57

3. Historical and cultural documents. (photocopied handout)