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ASIA303

Phillippine Literature in Spanish

Subject code

ASIA

Course Number

303

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

D. George

Course Long Title

Phillippine Literature in Spanish

Cross Listed Courses

Description

This course interrogates the status of the Spanish language and literature written in Spanish in the Philippines from 1873 to 1945. Through the study of foundational works by the late nineteenth-century Ilustrados, it explores how Spanish came to be a vehicle for movements of resistance and rebellion against 400 years of Spain’s colonial domination of the archipelago. In novels, poetry, and essays by writers of the so-called Golden Age, it examines how Spanish persisted under the U.S. colonial occupation (1898-1945) to contest the imposition of English and Anglophone culture, and to cultivate a sense of Filipino nationhood alongside literary revivals of indigenous languages such as Tagalog, Cebuano, and Chavacano. Readings include works by Pedro Paterno, José Rizal, Jesús Balmori, Adelina Gurrea and María Paz Mendoza, among others. Only open to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level Hispanic studies course beyond 211. Recommended background: HISP 230 and 231.

Modes of Inquiry

Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]

Writing Credit

No writing credit

INDS Program Relationship

IDAS - ASIA Program

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years, Exclude Sophomores

Recommended Background

HISP 230 and 231.