CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN SPANISH

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Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor required. Formerly titled Topic: Caribbean Literature in Spanish. This course will reflect on literary contributions by writers from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean nations. Authors such as Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Nemesio Canales, Luis Pales Matos, Jose Marti, Nicolas Guillen, Alejo Carpentier, Ruben Dario, Pedro Henriques Urena, Pedro Mir, Juan Bosch, and even Isaac Chocron and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have voiced their thinking in all the representative genres from print journalism to the novel. Each selection will be paired with a contemporary, current, female author from the same geographical area.