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Note: You do not have to prepare any readings for assignments designated as "Review" or "Lecture on...", or marked as "cf.", but you must complete all readings marked "Discuss..." for the day on which it is assigned and be ready to discuss.  Likewise, assignments marked as "Recitación" do not require preparation by the group; instead, I will ask individuals throughout the semester to be prepared before class to read a portion or fragment of a text out loud.  This allows the group to be familiar with one more text and, more importantly, allows the individual to work on proper pronunciation and interpretive or dramatic reading.

(* = On L: drive)

 

Unit I: La realidad interior (Lo filosófico y sicológico)

 

7 de sept

--- Introducción: 
  • Review of narrative terms (*on L: drive)
  • Lecture on Precursors to Boom
 
(sem. 1)
martes. 12
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14 ---
  • Intro to Julio Cortázar: Los macro- y micromundos -- Freud, Einstein, y la fantasía
  • Discuss Cortázar:
  • (cf. E.E. Cummings "Among Crumbling People")
  • Recitación: "Carta de una señorita de Paris" -- individual assignment
(sem. 2)
martes.-19
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21 ---
(sem. 3)"Borges y yo"
martes.-26
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  • Tutorial: Citas particulares
28 ---
  • Discuss Ernesto Sábato: El túnel
  • You must have finished the entire novel before class..
(sem. 4)
martes
.-3 de oct
 
  • Discuss Sábato's El Tunel cont.
  • Paper I due at class time
   

Unit II: La realidad exterior (Lo social, político y cultural)

5

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  • Lecture on socio-political reality:
  • cf. Carlos Fuentes La muerte de Artemio cruz. and Augusto Roa Bastos' Yo el Supremo (cf. bastos.pdf *)
  • Intro to Gabriel García Márquez and discuss El otoño del patriarca  (otono.pdf*) - come prepared with an outline of a practice explication (i.e., break it into apartados, analyze fondo/forma, etc.)
(sem. 5)
martes.-10
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  • Michael and Leah present: (film) Mario Vargas Llosa' s La ciudad y los perros
  • Preparation for Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos -- discuss  Preliminary Thoughts
12 ---
  • Reading Days
(sem. 6)
martes.-17
 
  • Discuss Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos
19

 

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  • Discuss Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos
(sem. 7)
martes.-24
 
  • Discuss Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos
  • Paper II due at class time
26  
  • Shane and Jamie present (film): García Márquez' El coronoel no tiene quien le escriba
  • Stephanie and Rachel present (film) Allende's  House of the Spirits

 

Unit III: La realidad mágica (Lo real maravilloso)

(sem. 8)
martes.-31
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2 ---
  • Tutorial: Citas particulares 
(sem. 9)
martes.-7
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  • Discuss García Márquez: 100 años de soledad
9 ---
  • Discuss García Márquez: 100 años de soledad
(sm. 10)
martes.-14
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  • Discuss García Márquez: 100 años de soledad
  • Paper III  due at class time
16 ---
  • Tutorial: Citas particulares
(sm. 11)
martes.-28
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  • Noah and Lauren present (film) García Marquez' Milagro en Roma
  • Discuss Cortázar: "Axolotl" (cortazar2.pdf *) and "Noche boca arriba" (lanochebocarriba.pdf *)
30 ---
  • Discuss Fuentes "Chac Mool" and "Por boca de los dioses" (both pdf in L:drive)
  • (cf. Fuentes' Cristóbal Nonato)
(sm. 12)
martes.5-
 
7 ---
  • Conclusions: See handout for Final Discussion
  • Final Essay due on Friday
  Final Exam week