Spring 2008

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SPANISH GRADUATE COURSES FOR FALL 2008

Spanish 306S Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

Professor Liliana Paredes

TH: 2:50-5:20 Teaching/Learning Center/Perkins Library

Study of language learning and teaching from theoretical and practical points of view, examines principles and practices of teaching a second or foreign language with concentration on recent interactive and communicative models of foreign language instruction. Goals include introducing principles of second language acquisition and learning; critically reading relevant literature in the area(s); and contributing to foreign language teacher education through reflective and critical thinking. Readings and discussions supplemented by classroom observation and evaluation. Small action-research project expected. Graduate students only. Instructor: Staff

Spanish 391.01  Caribbean Literature: Colonialism, Decolonization, Diaspora

Professor Francisco-J Hernandez Adrian

T: 4:25-6:55  Perkins 101

This seminar approaches Caribbean texts of the 20th century through the lens of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory.  The historical and genealogical Caribbean as a “space” of crisis linked to the construction of modernity is also the critical archipelago where notions such as insularity, region, nation, Atlantic imperialism, diaspora, and globalization have produced those forms of discursive fluidity that we call “Caribbean literature.”  Reading the Caribbean in historical and political context can enable a future understanding of literature as the language of ethics, politics, and cultural resistance.  Texts by José Martí, Lydia Cabrera, Alejo Carpentier, Julia de Burgos, Severo Sarduy, Juan Bosch, Ana Lydia Vega, and Junot Díaz.

Spanish 391.02 Literature & Democracy in 19th Century Latin America

Professor Richard Rosa

M: 4:25-6:55 Soc Sci 107

The course will be an exploration of the relationship between literature and republican discourse in Latin America during the century after independence, focusing on the issue of representation in both its political and aesthetic dimensions.  Drawing from recent reinterpretations of early modern political theory that focus on questions of language and conceptual history, we will attempt to make a re-description of the rhetorical strategies deployed by these writers.  At the core of their projects is an attempt to design strategies for managing the self in order to make it fit for the modern commercial society, while maintaining the integrity of a community and a notion of the common good.  We will discuss predominant interpretative trends and then try to formulate a different framework for reading these texts. Readings and topics include: the authors that worked within the context of the development of “Gran Colombia” (Francisco Antonio Zea, Juan García del Río, Jorge Lozano, Simón Bolívar, Antonio Nariño, Andrés Bello); the criticism of liberalism by Francisco Bilbao and Cecilio Acosta; race, commerce and aesthetics in Eugenio María de Hostos; the female civic republicanism of Juana Manuela Gorriti and Clorinda Matto de Turner; Indigenous and Afro-Latin-American republicanism; the work of José Martí. Theoretical and historical readings from Angel Rama, Michel Foucault, J. G. A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner, Judith M. Sklar, F. R. Ankersmit, Luis Castro Leiva, among others.

Spanish 391.03 Modern Peninsular PHDDE and RS Exam Prep

Professor Stephanie Sieburth

W: 4:25-6:55 Languages 208

For modern Peninsular students preparing their PHDDE or RS track exams.  Enrollment limited to these students.

Spanish 391.04  Hispanic Seminar

Professor Antonio Viego

TH: 4:25-6:55 West Duke Bldg. 108A

Spanish 391.05   The Dictatorship of Development?  Spain's Happy Sixties

Professor Justin Crumbaugh

TH: 7:00-9:30 Languages 305

Foucault's term "governmentality" refers to the gradual shift throughout modern times toward a situation in which skillful management of the political economy (with a view to optimize growth and prosperity) becomes the gold standard of "good" government. The shift involves new ideas about what is incumbent upon those who govern, and about how government can and should intervene upon the population. In doing so, governmentality gives rise to a new imaginary existence or "meta-capital" (Bordieu) of the state, a new conceptual framework through which power operates. What cultural studies scholars may contribute to the study of this phenomenon is an account of its aesthetic dimensions, of how forms of representation shape our understanding of and relationship to the state vis-a-vis ideas about economic growth. One might say that we must put the "art" back in the "art of governing" and address the ways in which the discourse of growth and development is a powerful tool of governance in its own right.  This course seeks to rethink theoretical formulations about the relationship between governance and economic growth by studying the Franco dictatorship's attempts to reconsolidate power through the politics of desarrollismo during the 1960s. On the one hand, we will read political essays written by regime ideologues such as Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora and Manuel Fraga Iribarne, and connect their work to larger intellectual trends occurring at the time throughout Europe, noting, for instance, the surprising influence of "liberal" thinkers such as Karl Manheim and Karl Popper. We will also look at how newsreels (NO-DOs) and pro-regime commercial films starring Paco Martínez Soria, Manolo Escobar, and Alfredo Landa popularized certain ideas about development and liberalization and, in the process, changed perceptions about the very nature of the state. On the other hand, we will see how oppositionist intellectuals adopted some of the precepts of the Frankfurt School and the New Left in order to denounce what they viewed as the fundamentally undemocratic nature of consumer capitalism itself. Similarly, Spain's most acclaimed film directors of the time drew upon the experimental aesthetics of European "new cinemas" in order to articulate their own critiques. Some of the authors to be read are Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ramón Tamames, Vladimir Lenin, Herbert Marcuse, Marshall McLuhan, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Slavoj Zizek, and scholars currently working on Foucault's notion of "governmentality," such as Nikolas Rose, Mitchell Dean, and Tony Benet.