SPAN 420 - New World & Spanish Colonial Literature

Selections from major genres of the precolonial and colonial periods (1100-1810) produced by authors in Spain and Latin America: indigenous codies, the chronicle of the Encounter and Conquest, lyric and epic poetry, colonial theater, pre-independence writing, etc. Among the themes examined are: utopian images of the New World, the Hispanic “rewriting” of indigenous cultures, and the emergence of the mestizo identity in literature and political essays.

Pre-req: SPAN 355 or SPAN 356
3 credits