TEXTUAL CRITICISM

SPANISH 490

Drawing mainly from early modern Spanish and Colonial texts, covers encounters and relations with different forms of "otherness". Move from America to Spain and across the Mediterranean world to Istanbul, from the late 15th century to the 17th. Discuss issues of race, ethnicity, and religious affiliation. Spain's long history of relations between Muslims, Jews and Christians will form a backdrop to interactions with Amerindians, sub-Saharan Africans, Jews, Moriscos, Gypsies, North African Muslims and Turks. One of the millions of slaves during this period was Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. He and many other writers would reflect profoundly on questions of "otherness" in works that would have universal implications and continue to connect with our concerns in the 21st century.

SPANISH 801

Seminar focusing on literature, literary criticism, or theory relevant to colonial and 19th-century Spanish American literature.

SPANISH 322

Selected readings, discussions, and literary history of Spain and Spanish America through 1700.

SPANISH 468

In-depth study of important cultural-historical issues concerning the Hispanic world.

SPANISH 464

Readings in the work of major Spanish American poets and essayists within a historical framework.