SPN 740 - Contemporary Spanish Women Authors

3 Credit(s) This course will study Spanish Literature by women authors from the Civil War (1936-39) to the present. Selected works from the vast panorama of women writers of Spain will be analyzed. Though all genres will be included, special emphasis will be given to Prose Fiction because it is the genre that has received more attention from readers and scholars. The works will be approached within their literary context and their cultural context. The idea is to explore the space of female discourse in Spain’s social, historical and literary reality of the recent past. Conducted in Spanish.
Pre-requisite: Upper intermediate level of Spanish.