SPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Refashioning the Self: Hispanic Women’s Literature in the 20th Century

4 credits (Spring)

This course focuses on the ways in which women represented motherhood and marriage within 20th century Hispanic literature. We will analyze women’s literature from Spain and Latin America, identifying elements that perpetuated or challenged traditional paradigms of womanhood in a transatlantic context. Students will read narrative fiction, critical essays, and secondary (historical and critical) texts in Spanish, in order to understand changing attitudes towards women as individuals and towards marriage and motherhood as institutions.

Prerequisite: SPN 285.
Instructor: Bender