SPAN 752 - Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature

A survey of Latin American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the writers to be studied are: Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. The course will cover a variety of topics, including: recreating Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism in the New World; emerging voices of the Criollos; and colonialism, nationalisms and independence.