Latin American Literature 2

The course is entitled: The imaginary of the other in Hispanic American fiction (19th and 20th century)a and consists of the following three teaching units, which will be addressed in sequence:
A: Writing American Independence. Models in comparison
B: The imaginary of the Other, from the imaginary of the nigger to a gender perspective
C: The indigenous issue in Latin America

The course aims to provide students with an overview of 19th century Hispanic American literature, a complex and controversial century in which political independence raises the question of cultural and literary independence. Particular attention will be given to the debate on identity, the models of representation of the other (ethnic and gender subalternity) and the forms of resistance and articulation of a dissident discourse returned by literature. The main objective is to redeem forms, models and paradigms that will be of orientation in the great twentieth-century period of Hispanic American literature.
In the unit A the question of 1810, between independence and emancipation, will be addressed. At the centre will be the problem of identity (ethnicity, culture, religion, gender) in the desire to build an imaginary openness from European models, capable of embodying the multiple socio-cultural status of the Continent.
In the unit B we will analyze the models and forms of representation of the negro in Cuba through the work of Manzano; Barnet, Carpentier and we will enter into a gender perspective through the work of the protofeminists Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Flora Tristán.
Unit C will deal with the imagery of the Indian in Peru, through the twentieth-century re-readings of Arguedas and Scorza
The course program is valid until September 2021 inclusive.