HISPANIC AMERICAN LITERATURE 2 MOD. 1

The teaching is part of the degree program of "Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences" and aims to provide students with methodological tools in the Hispanic American literary and cultural context. Objectives of the course are: to develop literary language, to improve the skills about the analysis of the issues emerging from texts, and to provide methodological tools aimed at critical and comparative analysis (considering the comparative nature of Hispanic American literature). Particular attention is given to the cultural, theoretical and literary aspects of the texts. The achievement of these objectives allows the student to strengthen the basis for learning Hispanic American literatures and the eventual subsequent deepening of them.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
a. knowledge in the historical-literary field of theoretical notions inherent to the history of Hispanic-American literatures in its chronological evolution from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century, in particular up to the production of Jorge Luis Borges (diachronic perspective).
b. develop the technological, terminological and documentation tools to be able to interpret literary texts from a cultural and narratological point of view.
c. ability to understand Hispanic-American literary texts of the periods studied and to apply the acquired notions and theoretical tools to selected texts among the most important expressions of Hispanic America of the periods considered. Ability to analyze and comment on the texts from a cultural and literary-critical point of view in their original elaboration in Spanish, and to identify themes and problems common to different poetics and authors (synchronic perspective).

2. Knowledge and applied understanding:
a. ability to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to the works and texts covered during the course;
b.. ability to analyze and compare texts and to elaborate conceptual syntheses;
c. ability to place a text and a literary phenomenon in their context of production and reception;

3. Autonomy of judgment: strengthen the exercise of critical thinking and the ability to formulate autonomous hypotheses and judgments argued in a coherent and effective manner.

4. Communication skills: development of communication skills aimed at a coherent, clear, terminologically precise and effective exposition both in oral interaction in class on topics related to the course and subsequently in the exam.

5. Learning ability: ability to infer, relate data, summarize, organize the coherent and autonomous analysis of a text and/or a literary process.

Students must have an adequate level of written and oral Spanish (level B2), as well as adequate language skills in Italian language.

Hispanic America from political dependence to literary emancipation.

The course aims to provide a broad overview of the literary cultures and productions of the Hispanic-American continent, embracing the temporal arch enclosed between the Colonization period (XVI-XVII-XVII centuries), the years of the constitution of the national states (19th century), to the dawn of a cultural identity and literary originality with the work of Borges (20th century).
The lessons will be developed as follows.
1. Introduction of the author providing biographical notes to track down the most important themes of his work.
2. Presentation of the author's bibliography.
3. Reading of one or more selected texts, and analysis both from a literary-critic point of view and from a cultural one.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY

An anthology will be furnished during the course. It will contain selected texts written by the authors that will be considered in the course, from Garcilaso de la Vega El Inca (XVI century) to Jorge Luis Borges (XX century).

Oviedo, Jose Miguel, "Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana", 4 volumi, Madrid, Alianza, 1997.

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Barrera Lopez, Trinidad (coord.), "Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana", Madrid, Catedra, 2008.
Bellini, Giuseppe, "Nueva historia de la literatura hispanoamericana", Madrid, Castalia, 1997.
Marchese, Angelo, "L'officina del racconto. Semiotica della narrativita", Mondadori, Milano, 1983.
Lopez Baralt, Mercedes, "Para decir al Otro: Literatura y antropología en nuestra America", Madrid-Frankfurt am Maim: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005.

Knowledges about the cultural contexts and the different literary poetics of Hispanic America in the considered periods, as well as the ability to understand literary texts, will be verified through an oral final examination. The exam will be carried out orally, in Italian and will last approximately 20-30 minutes.

oral

Regarding the grading scale, scores will be assigned according to the following criteria:
1) knowledge of the topics covered in class and in the bibliography (range 10 points)
2) ability to hierarchize information (range 10 points)
3) use of the appropriate specific terminology (range 10 points)

Honors will be awarded in the presence of knowledge and ability to understand applied in reference to the program, ability to formulate judgments, relevant autonomy and communication skills, excellent.

The lessons will be carried out according to the conventional method (frontal lessons) and will be held in Italian. The exam will consist of an oral interview in Italian on the authors and texts considered in the classroom.

More critical information will be offer during the classes. Moreover, every student is recommended to follow additional lessons and round-table conferences that may be held between September and December 2025.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development