HISP 2520Q S01 [CRN: 16962]

This course traces the emergence and evolution of nationalist expression in literary and political texts from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Beginning with early anti-colonial and nation-building writing, we focus particularly on the idea of the island in articulations of national culture. We address key figures in the intellectual history of the Caribbean; essays, novels and poetry from the nineteenth-century to the twenty-first; and recent critical and theoretical work on the Spanish Caribbean. Weekly topics include the intersection of race and nationalism; exile and migration; and transnational ties to the broader Caribbean, the U.S. and Latin America. This course is for graduate students only.

Term

Fall 2021

Credit Hours

1

Maximum Enrollment

15

Primary Instructor

Esther K Whitfield

Meetings

13:00 - 15:30 Tue - from Sep 8, 2021 to Dec 21, 2021

Exam Group Code

08