Course Catalog - 2004-2005

     

SPAN 464 - LITERATURE AND THE STATE

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Department: Spanish
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE AND THE STATE ***** Is literature a mere extension and apparatus of state constitution and sovereignty, or is it a potentially subversive space where institutions of power can be disarticulated? If it is the latter, in what does such a disarticulation consist? Readings will include Borges, Rulfo, Roa Bastos, Arguedas, Piglia and F. Vallejo. ***** Prerequisite(s):: Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes