HISP 228 - Modern Spain

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Studies in Spanish literary and cultural production from the beginning of the Bourbon monarchy to the present.

2018/19b: After Muslims and Jews. The course approaches the cultural history of modern Spain in light of the homogenization of the nation-state through war, forced conversion and expulsion. Long after there were no Muslims and Jews living in Spain, the national imaginary continued to be haunted by its absent Others. The course takes up that legacy, focusing on the contrast with other European Orientalisms in the nineteenth century and the impact of the twentieth-century controversy in Spain about the thesis of national hybridity. Andrew Bush.

Prerequisite(s): HISP 216.

Two 75-minute periods.