SPAN120A PO

A survey of Spanish Peninsular literature from its medieval beginnings until the Golden Age at the end of the seventeenth century. Poetry, theater, and short narratives by major Spanish authors of the period, including female writers, will be studied. Readings organized within a historical and cultural framework. Questions of national identity, imperialism, power, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender will figure prominently. Particular attention will be paid to the representation of conflicts between Christianity and Islam and the construction and depiction of otherness (women, Jews, Muslims, sexual minorities, etc.) by the dominant male Christian Castilian culture. Visual materials of socio-historical or cultural value will be used as extra-textual aids. Prerequisites: SPAN 101 PO.

PO Area 1 Requirement, PO Language Requirement, Do Not Display - PAC 1, PO Writing Intensive Req, All Languages, Latin American Studies, Spanish