HISPANOAMERICAN LITERATURE

It is required a deep knowledge of the mainstream authors of Latin American Literature from its origins to the present day, paying attention to the authors of the “Boom de la literatura hispanoamericana”; the course also aims at consolidating interpretative and critical skills in studying the literary texts of the period taken into consideration, through the narratological analysis of temporality, narrative metalepsis and narrator’s voice.

Lectures

The course goes into depth with the authors of the Hispanic American “Boom” and with their literary formal features, through a selection of anthological passages and critical essays; it provides an analysis of the use of the narrator’s voice, narrative metalepsis and temporality

a) Anthology:

Antología de la literatura hispanoamericana, Madrid, Verbum (pages related to the authors chosen by the student).

b) Literature:

C. Goic, Historia y crítica de la literatura hispanoamericana, Barcelona, Editorial Crítica, 1991 (pages related to the authors chosen by the student).

c) History:

D. Pompejano, Storia dell’America latina, Milano, Mondadori, 2012 (pages related to the historical-geographical contexts of the authors chosen by the student).

d) Methodological texts:

- GERARD GENETTE, Figure III. Discorso del racconto, Torino, Einaudi.

- ANGELO MARCHESE, Dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Milano, Mondadori.

– IDEM, L’officina del racconto, Milano, Mondadori.

Analysis

Texts:

Mario Vargas Llosa, La Señorita de Tacna, Kathie y el hipopótamo, La Chunga, in Teatro. Obra reunida, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2006 (from p. 7 to p. 363).

(or any other edition) .

Critical texts:

Domenico Antonio Cusato, El teatro de Mario Vargas Llosa, Messina, Lippolis, 2007 (from p. 13 to p. 108).

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All the books listed in the program can be consulted in the Library.