In the early-twentieth century the concept of "the Modern" was alternately exhilarating and bewildering, inspiring and disturbing for Spanish American writers. This course will examine various responses to modernity and modernization in Spanish American literature from 1900-1945, considering such topics as urbanization, immigration, neo-imperialism, social revolution, and the conflict between foreign and indigenous cultural forms. Writers to be considered include modernistas Jose Marti and Ruben Dario; vanguard poets Cesar Vallejo, Alfonsina Storni, and Oliverio Girondo; novelists Mariano Azuela, Jose Eustasio Rivera, and Miguel Angel Asturias; story-writers Horacio Quiroga, Maria Luisa Bombal, Eduardo Mallea, and Jorge Borges; editor and memoirist Victoria Ocampo. Requirements: midterm and final exams, one 5-page paper and one 15-page paper, a presentation on one of the writers or literary movements being studied, and participation in class discussions. Expected enrollment: 12. Enrollment limit: 15.

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