PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO International Program of Student Exchange Short term programs

Contemporary Hispanic American Literature

NAME OF COURSE Contemporary Hispanic American Literature HOURS 45 contact hours CREDITS 03 COURSE CODE PIIE 4245

Course description This course is designed especially for foreign students and intends to give a panorama on contemporary Hispanic American literature from a historical, social, and cultural perspective, through its main figures, works, and problems. However, the course also intends to establish certain relations between literature and other fields of knowledge such as history, philosophy, and art in general.

Main objectives . Present and study the literary works as a manifestation of the historical-cultural framework and the literary tradition in which they are framed. . Establish a critical conscience of literature in contemporary Hispanic American society.

Specific objectives . Encourage the discovery and reading of some significant works of the Hispanic American literary production of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. . Develop participatory discussion on the course’s contents . Stimulate reflective and critical skills around the various historical-cultural phenomena of the time the course addresses.

Contents Unit I: Hispanic American literature: backgrounds, origins, and founders Concepts: Hispanic American literature. Historic-cultural context of contemporary Hispanic American literature. South American, Central American, and North American literature in Spanish. Precursors of lyric poetry: end of 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Naturalism, realism. Rubén Darío and modernism. The great poetic voices of the first half of the 20th century: Mistral, Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda, Paz, Parra. Short story: origins and development during the 20th century.

Unit 2: Consolidation of Hispanic American Narrative The importance of the avant-gardes. Jorge Luis Borges: the labyrinth, fiction. Founder of contemporary Chilean narrative: Manuel Rojas, María Luisa Bombal. The generation of 1927. Concepts: the marvelous real and magical realism. Alejo Carpentier: prologue to El reino de este mundo (1949). Julio Cortázar: Rayuela and the game. Rulfo and violence in the neorrealist generation. Juan José Arreola and the absurd in literature. The generation of 1957. The “Latin American boom”. Main authors and characteristics. García Márquez and Cien años de soledad- José Donoso and the origins of contemporary narrative in . Vargas Llosa and the total .

Unit 3: Postmodernity Concept of postmodernity. Political conjunctures in Hispanic America. Violence and literature. Censorship, exile, and memory. Source analysis. The Chilean case: Allende, Pinochet. in the 90s. Postmodernity: what happens to Hispanic American literature in the beginning of the 21st century? Relation between film and literature. Feminism: contributions, criticisms. Feminine literature. Minorities: sexual, ethnic, socio- cultural. Contemporary cultural phenomena. Towards a concept of Hispanic American identity.

Unit 4: Dialogue. Contemporary themes and intertextuality. A postmodern genre: microfiction. Lauro Zavala El cuento ultracorto bajo el microscopio. Relations between microstories and haikus. Memory and reconstruction: the new historical novel. Contemporary political processes and literature. Change of format: contributions and problems of mass media, e-books, editorial changes. Indigenous poetry in Hispanic America. Contemporary Central American literature: an enigma for South America. Authors: Manlio Argueta, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Jacinta Escudos.

Methodology Contents will be developed through expository lessons, lectures accompanied by PowerPoint presentations when necessary, group discussion, oral presentations and related videos. Additionally, students will be asked to write essays and critical documents on the studied texts, described below.

Evaluation Students in the class must comply with the following academic requirements: -Partial essays (3): 50% -Final essay on previously selected subject: 20% -Brief oral presentation on the final project: 30%

Bibliography All material will be delivered in each session with the corresponding bibliographic information. However, a list of general reference works can be found below. a) Sources. AA.VV. Puertos abiertos. Antología del cuento centroamericano. México: FCE, 2011. Selection and prologue by Sergio Ramírez. CALDERÓN, Alfonso: Antología de la Poesía Chilena Contemporánea. , Chile: Universitaria, 1970. DÉLANO, Poli. (Anthologist). Cuentos centroamericanos. Santiago: Andrés Bello, 2000. HAHN, Oscar: Antología del cuento fantástico hispanoamericano. Santiago: Universitaria, 1990. HUENÚN, Jaime: Antología de la poesía indígena latinoamericana. Santiago: Lom, 2008. MACHEMBACH, Werner (editor). Cicatrices. Un retrato del cuento centroamericano. Managua: Anamá ediciones, 2004. NÓMEZ, Naín: Antología crítica de la Poesía Chilena. Santiago, Chile: LOM, 2001. b) Critical texts. BAUDRILLARD, J.; FOSTER, H.; HABERMAS et al.: La posmodernidad. México: Kairós, 1988. BRITO, Eugenia: Campos minados. Literatura post-golpe en Chile. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1994. GODOY, Eduardo: La Generación del Cincuenta. Santiago, Chile: La Noria, 1991. GOIC, Cedomil: Historia de la Novela Hispanoamericana. Valparaíso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso, 1972. GUERRA, Lucía. Mujer y escritura: fundamentos teóricos de la crítica feminista. Santiago, Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2008. HARSS, Luis: Los nuestros. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1969. LIPOVETSKY, Gilles. La era del vacío. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2003. MENTON, Seymour: Historia verdadera del realismo mágico. México: F. C. E., 2003. PAZ, Octavio: Los hijos del limo. Santiago de Chile: Tajamar ediciones, 2008. SCHOPF, Federico: Del Vanguardismo a la Antipoesía. Santiago, Chile, LOM, 2000. VIU BOTTINI, Antonia. Imaginar el pasado, decir el presente. La novela histórica chilena 1985-2003. Santiago, Chile: RIL, 2007. c) Web-sites www.ciudadseva.com www.memoriachilena.cl

Course approval requirements

- Grade average: 4.0 (Chilean scale) - Attendance: 90%