SPAN 425 - La Literatura Mexicana
Exposes students to Mexican literature from its indigenous and Hispanic origins to its more contemporary expressions. Examines and discusses representative authors from all literary periods, including such literary icons as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Mariano Azuela, Ignacio Altamirano, Rosario Castellanos, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Agustin, and Laura Esquivel. Taught in Spanish.
This course meets: MLO 3 Literary and Cultural Knowledge
This course meets: MLO 3 Literary and Cultural Knowledge
Course Reflective Narratives
SPAN 425 focused on Mexican writers throughout the history of Mexico which was emphasized in short stories and novels. These Literary texts were used to gain an understanding of Mexican culture, societies, and values. Professor Dr. Carolyn Gonzalez taught the course. We read books, novels, poems, and short stories on exceptional, motivated, talented groups of renowned authors who played a substantial role in Mexican literature and culture. Those authors were Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Juan Rulfo, Laura Esquivel, Octavio Paz, and more. At the end of the course, we were assigned an essay assignment as a final project. The assignment was to pick a novel and write about one of its themes and to explain how the novel presents it through its writing. The novel I decided to choose was El vampiro de la colonia Roma, by the author Luiz Zapata. Luis Zapata was considered an important author for Mexico because he was one of the pioneers of queer Mexican liteature. In my final assignment, I decided to title it, “Nuevo punto de vista,” “A New Point of View”, and wrote about how the novel give a new perspective to prostitution by showing it from a male’s point of view and showing the with prostitution, it can be a form a survival and something positive. Through this course, I was able to expand my cultural and literary knowledge regarding various pieces of literature that build upon the cultural aspects of Mexican literature in their respective regions and times in which they were written.