SPAN 322 - Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature: Latin America & the Caribbean
Course Description: Reading and discussion of selected masterworks of literature as they reflect the historical, political, and social context of the Latin American and Caribbean experience. Students are introduced to critically reading, writing, and discussing the form and content of these literary masterpieces. Taught in Spanish.
Reflective Narrative:
This course, which fulfilled MLO 3, was honestly one of the toughest classes I have taken at CSUMB. Every day of class assigned multiple chapters of intense reading, so some days were tougher than others. But most of the readings for this class were really interesting to me. We read a variety of works from many authors, ranging from the writings of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas to the surrealist stories of Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges to the poetry of Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende, we had access to readings throughout Hispanic history and analyzed them deeply. In the second half of the semester, each student began to read a different novel that they would go on to present to the class and write a final essay on. You can find my presentation and my paper here, and read about the novel La Vorágine, (The Vortex) by José Eustacio Rivera. This book was a surrealist novel depicting the crimes committed by a group of people during the Amazon Rubber Boom from 1879 to 1912. I liked reading this book, but found it difficult to read, as it used very advanced language, so I felt I could not properly appreciate some of the writing.
Reflective Narrative:
This course, which fulfilled MLO 3, was honestly one of the toughest classes I have taken at CSUMB. Every day of class assigned multiple chapters of intense reading, so some days were tougher than others. But most of the readings for this class were really interesting to me. We read a variety of works from many authors, ranging from the writings of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas to the surrealist stories of Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges to the poetry of Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende, we had access to readings throughout Hispanic history and analyzed them deeply. In the second half of the semester, each student began to read a different novel that they would go on to present to the class and write a final essay on. You can find my presentation and my paper here, and read about the novel La Vorágine, (The Vortex) by José Eustacio Rivera. This book was a surrealist novel depicting the crimes committed by a group of people during the Amazon Rubber Boom from 1879 to 1912. I liked reading this book, but found it difficult to read, as it used very advanced language, so I felt I could not properly appreciate some of the writing.