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Instructor: S. Henighan
Office: MacK. 274
Ext. 54489, 53883
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
WINTER 2015
HISP*4410: Senior Seminar on Latin America Post-1950/
LACS*6040: Novel and Nation in Latin America
Note: This course counts for either 1.0 credits towards an undergraduate degree or 0.5 credits
towards a graduate degree. Undergraduates should plan to accommodate a workload that will be
heavier than in a course that is valued at 0.5 credits.
Objectives: The seminar provides in-depth study of contemporary Spanish America through its
literature. The topic for Winter 2015 is “Gender and Identity in Spanish American
Literature.” We will trace the modern erosion of traditional patriarchal conceptions of discrete
and separate male and female identities, derived from Catholic theology’s transmission of the
Western patriarchal tradition, from the 1960s, when the first fissures appeared in patriarchal
definitions of gender roles, through the articulation of overtly gay and lesbian identities in the
1970s and 1980s, to the fluidity of gendering under post-1990 accelerated globalization. In the
latter half of the course we will take into account globalization’s weakening of the nation state
and the patriarchal model of society. In particular, we will explore how the assumption of a
national history lent coherence and authority by patriarchal figures has yielded to a conception
of history that is multiple, diaphanous or more ambiguously gendered.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
**Interpret, evaluate and criticize texts of different genres by important Spanish American
writers from the 1960s to the present and enhance understanding of the evolution of literary
technique;
**Analyse political responses to phenomena such as dictatorship, exile and globalization;
**Formulate an authoritative analysis of the development of conceptions of gender in
Spanish America from the 1960s to the present;
**Formulate a position and build an argument supported by appropriate textual evidence;
**Demonstrate artistic and intellectual appreciation of Spanish American literature, including its
aesthetic trajectory over the last fifty years;
**Improve reading skills in Spanish, in addition to speaking skills.
Electronic Etiquette: In order to support the learning outcomes stated above, no laptops,
tablets, cellphones or similar devices may be turned on during class. Note-taking should be
done by hand. (An exception may be made in the case of a student who is registered with
Student Accessibility Services, though the usual procedure in this case would be to appoint a
note-taker rather than to use a computer.)
This policy exists to improve your learning experience, as scientific studies demonstrate
that note-taking by hand produces enhanced cognitive development and a thorough grasp of the
course material; by contrast, taking notes on a laptop “impairs learning.” See, for example,
advantages of longhand over Laptop note taking
banning laptops in the classroom
Required Reading:
José Donoso: El lugar sin límites (1966)
Manuel Puig: El beso de la mujer araña (1976)
Cristina Peri Rossi: La nave de los locos (1984)
Fernando Vallejo: La virgen de los sicarios (1994)
Laura Restrepo: Dulce compañía (1995)
Jaime Bayly: La noche es virgen (1997)
Daniel Sada: Casi nunca (2009)
Method of Evaluation:
Essay (10 pages)...............................................................20%
Expanded Revision of Essay (20 pages)..........................34%
In-Class Presentation........................................................10%
Reading quizzes (7 x 3%).................................................21%
Quality of class participation............................................15%
Detailed Program
Week One (6 de enero, 2015)
Catherine Davies, “Gender Studies,” in Efraín Kristal, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the
Latin American Novel (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 183-199.
William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss, “Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in
Latin America Since Independence.” In French and Bliss, Gender, Sexuality and Power in Latin
America Since Independence (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007): 1-30.
Carlos Fonseca Hernández, María Luisa Quintero Soto. “La teoría Queer: la de-construcción de
las sexualidades periféricas.” Sociológica, año 24, número 69, (enero-abril de 2009): 43-60.
http://www.revistasociologica.com.mx/pdf/6903.pdf
Week Two (13 de enero)
**José Donoso: El lugar sin límites
–Prueba de lectura I: El lugar sin límites
Week Three (20 de enero)
–Berta López Morales, “La construccion de ‘la loca’ en dos novellas chilenas: El lugar sin
limites de Jose Donoso y Tengo miedo torero de Pedro Lemebel.” Acta Literaria, No. 42 ( Jan.
2011): 79-102.
http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/actalit/n42/art_06.pdf
–Laura García-Moreno, “Limits of Performance: Art, Gender and Power in José Donoso’s El
lugar sin límites.” Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. Vol. 26. No. 2 (nov. 1997):
26-43.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741351
–Daniel Balderston and José Maristany, “The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America,” in Efraín
Kristal, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Cambridge-New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2005): 200-216.
Week Four (27 de enero)
**Manuel Puig: El beso de la mujer araña (1976)
–Prueba de lectura II: El beso de la mujer araña
–Presentación I: “El empleo de las películas en El beso de la mujer araña”
Week Five (3 de febrero)
–Presentación II: “El revolucionario, el hombre gay y la nación.”
–Francine Masiello, “Fuera de lugar: silencios y desidentidades en El beso de la mujer araña,” in
Puig, eds. José Amícola y Jorge Panesi, El beso de la mujer araña (Nanterre, France: Archivos,
2002): 574-588.
–Lisa Eriksson, “Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela": La construcción
de la identidad feminina en El beso de la mujer araña, de Manuel Puig.” Tesis, Högskolan
Dalarna, (2013): 1-22.
http://du.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:689031/FULLTEXT04.pdf
– Jessica Burke, “Fantasizing the Feminine: Sex and Gender in Donoso’s El lugar sin límites and
Puig’s Beso de la mujer araña.” Romance Notes, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Spring 2007): 291-300.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/romance_notes/v047/47.3.burke.pdf
Week Six (10 de febrero)
**Cristina Peri Rossi: La nave de los locos (1984)
–Prueba de lectura III: La nave de los locos
–Presentación III: “Exilio y disidencia sexual”
–Parizad Tamara Dejbord, Cristina Peri Rossi: Escritora del exilio (Buenos Aires: Galerna,
1998): 117-169.
–Leah Fonder-Solano, “Erotismo, actuación y la construcción de identidad: La nave de los
locos de Cristina Peri Rossi,” CiberLetras: Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura, Número 10
(diciembre 2010).
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v10/fonder-solano.htm
El jueves 12 de febrero, a las 16:00, se entrega el primer ensayo.
SEMANA DE LECTURA (16-20 de febrero)
Week Seven (24 de febrero)
**Fernando Vallejo: La virgen de los sicarios (1994)
–Prueba de lectura IV: La virgen de los sicarios
–Presentación IV: “El disidente sexual como aristócrata.”
–Juanita C. Aristizábal Peraza, “El pecado del escándalo: Dandismo y modernidad en Fernando
Vallejo.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Tomo XLVII, Número 2 (Junio 2013): 291-312.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/revista_de_estudios_hispanicos/v047/47.2.aristizabal-peraza.pdf
–Ana Serra, “La escritura de la violencia. La virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo,
testimonio paródico y discurso nietscheano.” Chasqui. Vol. 32 No. 2 (Nov. 2003): 65-75.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741804
Week Eight (3 de marzo)
**Laura Restrepo: Dulce compañía (1995)
–Prueba de lectura V: Dulce compañía
Week Nine (10 de marzo)
–Presentación V: “La mujer pública: La construcción de la periodista.”
–Mery Cruz Calvo. “La construcción del personaje femenino en Dulce compañía.” Estudios de
literatura colombiano. No. 13 (julio-diciembre 2003): 84-96.
http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/elc/article/view/17269/14926
–Daniela Melis, “Una entrevista con Laura Restrepo.” Chasqui. Vol. 34 No. 1 (May 2005): 114129.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/29741924.pdf?&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true
Week Ten (17 de marzo)
**Jaime Bayly: La noche es virgen (1997)
–Prueba de lectura VI: La noche es virgen.
–Presentación VI: “¿Globalizar a una identidad gay hispanoamericana?”
Paul McAleer, “Transsexual identities in a transcultural context: Jaime Bayly’s La noche es
virgen and the comic Bildungsroman.” Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Vol. 15 Nos. 2/3 (Aug-Dec. 2009): 179-198.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14701840903454116
Robert Ruz, “Queer Theory and Peruvian Narrative of the 1990s: The Mass Cultural
Phenomenon of Jaime Bayly.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesía. Vol. 12
No. 1 (2003): 19-36.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13569320305832
“Latin American Gays: Living la vida loca.” The Economist. 16 December 1999.
http://www.economist.com/node/269072
Week Eleven (24 de marzo)
**Daniel Sada, Casi nunca (2009)
–Prueba de lectura VII: Casi nunca
–Presentación VII: “La construcción del cuerpo a través del lenguaje”
Paul Kerschen, “Almost Never by Daniel Sada.” Quarterly Conversation # 28 (June 2012).
http://quarterlyconversation.com/almost-never-by-daniel-sada
Joaquín Marco, “Casi nunca/ Daniel Sada.” El Cultural, 11 de diciembre de 2008.
http://www.elcultural.es/revista/letras/Casi-nunca/24433
Week Twelve (31 de marzo)
–Presentación VIII: “Los estereotipos de género se deshacen – ¿o perduran?”
El lunes 6 de abril, a las 16:00 horas, se entrega el segundo ensayo.
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