Literature and Exile

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In this course we will read mainly literary texts written in exile and about the experience of exile. First we will examine passages of world literature: Genesis, Virgil, Defoe, Byron, Hugo, Kipling, Joyce, and Baldwin. Then, we will focus on Latin American writers: Sarmiento, Echeverría, Heredia, Reyes, Carpentier, Bosch, Arenas, Allende, and Rosales. At the end of the course we will be reading and discussing the latest studies on the exiles during the Spanish Civil War.