SPAN 6720 19th-Century Spanish American Literature

SPAN 6720 19th-Century Spanish American Literature
19th-Century Spanish American Literature
This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. A study of the literature of the emerging nations in Spanish America, with special attention to new genres such as the anti-slavery novel, gauchesque poetry, and the indigenist novel. Authors include Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Manzano, Sarmiento, Hernández , Isaacs, Galván, and Matto de Turner.
Pre-requistites: 4000-level sequence.
credit hours: 3