{"id":1171,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/comparative-literature-596-special-studies-in-comparative-literature-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:50","slug":"comparative-literature-596-special-studies-in-comparative-literature-2","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/comparative-literature-596-special-studies-in-comparative-literature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Literature 596 &#8211; Special Studies in  Comparative Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to examining three general anthologies of short stories from Spain, Latin America, and the Hispanic US, we will read a collection of short stories by Jewish Latin American women authors, a testimonial novel by a former political prisoner in Argentina, and a novel and film by Argentine author\/director Luc\u00eda Puenzo, who focuses on issues of sexual orientation and identity. Also, we will study recent films by several other women directors from these three regions, in order to map the general contours of feminist narrative discourse in the Spanish-speaking world over the past half century (and, in the case of the films, over the past decade). We will read the texts in English translation (although students who can are welcome to read them in the Spanish original) and will watch the films in Spanish with English subtitles, so no knowledge of Spanish is required. The primary texts will be complemented by several key theoretical and critical essays that will be uploaded to our Catalyst page. Students will direct one class discussion and participate actively in the other discussions. For the final essay they will choose one or two authors for additional research and analysis and will write a final 8-10-page analytical essay, presenting their research to the seminar at the end of the quarter.<br \/>\nBooks:<br \/>\nMasoliver R\u00f3denas, Juan Antonio, ed. The Origins of Desire: Modern Spanish Short Stories. New York: Serpent\u2019s Tail, 1993, 208 pp. [buy used on amazon]<br \/>\nCorreas de Zapata, Celia, ed. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real. Modern Library Classics, 2003, 272 pp. 0812967070. $10.72<br \/>\nAgos\u00edn, Marjorie, ed. The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America.\u00a0 The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1999, 272 pp. 1558612092 $15.15<br \/>\nStejilivich, Nora. A Single, Numberless Death. Trans. Cristina de la Torre. U of Virginia Press, 2002, 176 pp. 0813921317 $17.57<br \/>\nPuenzo, Luc\u00eda. The Fish Child. Trans. David William Foster. Texas Tech University Press, 2010, 176 pp. 0896727149 $21.85<br \/>\nGonz\u00e1lez, Ray, ed. Mirrors beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers. Curbstone Books, 1995, 331 pp. 1880684020 $14.95\u00a0<br \/>\nFilms:<br \/>\nMy Life Without Me (Spain, 2003), dir. Isabel Coixet, 106 min.<br \/>\nEven the Rain (Spain, 2010), dir. Iciar Bollain, 103 min.<br \/>\nLa ci\u00e9naga (Argentina, 2001), dir. Lucrecia Martel, 103 min.<br \/>\nThe Good Herbs (Mexico, 2010), dir.\u00a0 Mar\u00eda Novaro, 117 min.<br \/>\nMadeinusa (Peru, 2006), dir. Claudia Llosa, 100 min.<br \/>\nLabyrinths of Memory (Mexico, 2007), dir. Guita Schyfter<br \/>\nThe Prize (Argentina, 2011), dir. Paula Markovitch, 115 min.<br \/>\nThe Fish Child (Argentina, 2009), dir. Luc\u00eda Puenzo, 96 min<br \/>\nSe\u00f1orita Extraviada \/ Missing Young Woman (US, 2001), dir. Lourdes Portillo, 103 min.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1171","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 22:40:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}