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| Unit name |
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain |
| Unit code |
HISP21309 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
I/5
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| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
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| Unit director |
Dr. Wells |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None
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| Co-requisites |
None
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| School/department |
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit provides students with an introduction to several of Spain's most important post-war women writers. Students will explore the social, political and cultural background to the period under discussion and, through a close reading of each set text, they will examine the key themes that each writer explores in her fiction. These themes include the relationship between space and female freedom, female sexuality and male-female relations. Students should read all of the set texts before commencing this unit.
Aims:
- To introduce students to a significant body of knowledge of a complexity appropriate to second year level. The content matter will normally include one or more of the following: literature; social, cultural or political history; linguistics; cultural studies; film, television or other media.
- To facilitate students' engagement with a body of literature, including secondary literature, texts, including in non-print media, primary sources and ideas as a basis for their own analysis and development. Normally many or most of these sources will be in a language other than English and will enhance the development of their linguistic skills.
- To develop further skills of synthesis, analysis and independent research, building on the skills acquired in units at level C.
- Some options may prepare students for the experience of the Year Abroad.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Successful students will:
- be knowledgeable about a significant cultural, historical or linguistic subject related to the language they are studying;
- be skilled in the selection and synthesis of relevant material;
- be able to evaluate and analyse relevant material from a significant body of source materials, usually in a foreign language, at a high level;
- be able to respond to questions or problems by presenting their independent judgements in an appropriate style and at an high level of complexity;
- be able to transfer these skills to other working environments, including study at a foreign university and on work placements during the year abroad.
Teaching Information
Normally one lecture hour and one seminar hour per week across one teaching block (22 contact hours), often with student presentations. In units with a smaller number of students the lecture hour may be replaced by a second seminar or a workshop. Units involving film may require students to view films outside the timetabled contact hours.
Assessment Information
4000 word essay (100%)
Reading and References
Set texts:
- Carmen Laforet, La llamada (Collection of short stories) (1954)
- Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos (1957)
- Montserrat Roig, Ramona, adios (1972)
- Rosa Montero, Te trataré como una reina (1983)
Background reading:
- Brown, Joan L. (ed.), Women Writers of Contemporary Spain: Exiles in the Homeland (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991)
- Davies, Catherine, Women writers in twentieth-century Spain and Spanish America (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993)
- Davies, Catherine, Contemporary feminist fiction in Spain: the work of Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero (Oxford: Berg, 1994).
- Martín Gaite, Carmen, Desde la ventana: Enfoque femenino de la literatura española (Madrid: Espasa, 1993).
Recommended preliminary reading:
- Carmen Laforet, La llamada (Collection of short stories) (1954)
- Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos (1957)
- Montserrat Roig, Ramona, adios (1972)
- Rosa Montero, Te trataré como una reina (1983)
