HSPST-224 Women in Spanish Literature and Film:''Chicas de pelicula''

With an emphasis in the last two decades, this class will focus on literary and visual constructions of women in Contemporary Spain. Movies, poems and short stories will help us ask questions and explore ideas concerning Spanish women and society such as war and gender violence, immigration, sexualities, citizenship, interpersonal relationships, masculinities in transition, etc. Films and literary texts by Bigas Luna, Isabel Coixet, Icíar Bollaín, Anna Rossetti and Carme Riera, among others.

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

(Proseminar.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

200 or 201 or consent of instructor.

Offered

Fall

Notes

Taught in Spanish.