Prof. Harry Vélez Quiñones

University of Puget Sound

Library 253 / X-3269

Home: 1 - 206 - 328-3614

Office Hrs: MWF - 11:00-11:45; WF - 16:00-16:45

E-mail: velez@ups.edu

WWW: Homepage: webspace.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/velez

FL 380: An Archaeology of the "Boom": Modern Latin American Prose Fiction

 

Texts:

b.1892: Jorge Luis Borges {ARG.} Labyrinths (1944/1949) --FILM

b.1904: Alejo Carpentier {CUBA} The Lost Steps (1953)

b.1918: Juan Rulfo {MEX.} Pedro Páramo (1955)

b.1928: Carlos Fuentes {MEX.} The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) --FILM

b.1914: Julio Cortázar {ARG.}Hopscotch (1963)

b.1936: Mario Vargas-Llosa {PERÚ} The Time of the Hero (1963) --FILM

b.1928: Gabriel García-Márquez {COL.} One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

b.1932: Manuel Puig {ARG.} Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) –FILM

 

WWW:

FL 380 Website: http://webspace.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/velez/FL380/home380.htm

 

Reserve Readings:

CPK Reserve Reading for Foreign Langs. 380 (3 copies at Reserves Desk in the Library) Also available for purchase at the bookstore.

 

CALENDAR:

09/03 Wed. Objectives, requirements, rules, and advice.

09/05 Fri. The "Boom" in perspective: CPK 1-12 (Cronology, Brushwood), 104-107 (Barthes)

09/08 Mon. HVQ was ill!

09/10 Wed. The "Boom" in perspective: CPK 13-47 (Vargas-Llosa, Fuentes, Gass)

09/12 Fri. Borges: Laby.: 246-247, 45-50, 72-75 (Borges and I, Circular Ruins, Theme)
 

09/15 Mon. Borges: CPK 48-67, 68-72 Screening: Bertolucci’s The Spider's Stratagem (See note on screenings below)   WWW: http://depts.vassar.edu/~italian/bertolucci/spiders.html
 

http://webspace.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/velez/FL380/Borfilm.htm

  09/17 Wed. Borges: Laby.: 242, 3-18 (Cervantes, Tlön)
  09/19 Fri. Carpentier: CPK 73-85, Lost Steps: 1-75

 

09/22 Mon. Carpentier: CPK 86-103 , Lost Steps: 76-157

 

09/24 Wed. Carpentier: Lost Steps: 158-238

 

09/26 Fri. Carpentier: Lost Steps: 239-278

 

09/29 Mon. Rulfo: CPK 108-120, Pedro Páramo: 1-41

 

10/01 Wed. Rulfo: Pedro Páramo: 41-85

 

10/03 Fri. Rulfo: Pedro Páramo: 86-124

 

10/06 Mon. Fuentes: CPK 121-143, Artemio Cruz: 1-86

 

10/08 Wed. Fuentes: Artemio Cruz: 87-162

 

10/10 Fri. Fuentes: Artemio Cruz: 162-219

 

 10/13 Mon. Screening: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

 

10/15 Wed. Fuentes: Artemio Cruz: 219-307

 

10/17 Fri. Cortázar: CPK 160b, Hopscotch: 1-71 A(73-97)

 

10/20 Mon. FALL BREAK

 

10/22 Wed. Cortázar: CPK 144-160, Hopscotch: 72-171 A(18-146)

 

10/24 Fri. Cortázar: Hopscotch: 172-261 A(29-75)

 

TERM PAPER TOPIC AND PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE.: CONFER: CPK 249-252

 

 10/27 Mon. Cortázar: Hopscotch: 264-349 A(43-58)

 

10/29 Wed. Vargas-Llosa: CPK 176-185, Time of the Hero: 1-62

 

10/31 Fri. Vargas-Llosa: Time of the Hero: 63-135

 

11/03 Mon. Vargas-Llosa: Time of the Hero: 136-243

 

11/05 Wed. Vargas-Llosa: Time of the Hero: 243-312

 

11/07 Fri. Screening of The City of the Dogs, Vargas-Llosa: Time of the Hero: 313-409

 

 11/10 Mon. García-Márquez: CPK 211-213, One Hundred Years: 1-81

 

11/12 Wed. Computer Lab. Session:  WebBoard  Details TBA
 

11/14 Fri. García-Márquez: CPK 186-202, One Hundred Years: 82-105

 

11/17 Mon. García-Márquez: CPK 203-210, One Hundred Years: 106-164

 

11/19 Wed. García-Márquez: One Hundred Years: 165-228
 
 

11/21 Fri. García-Márquez: One Hundred Years: 229-319

 

11/24 Mon. García-Márquez: One Hundred Years: 320-422

 

11/26 Wed. Forum: TBA

 

11/27-30 THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

12/01 Mon. Puig: CPK 214-222, Kiss: 1-71
Screening of Kiss of the Spider Woman TBA  Plan for one of MWF from 4:00-6:00pm

 

12/03 Wed. Puig: Kiss: 72-147

 

12/05 Fri. Puig: Kiss: 148-233

 

12/08 Mon. Puig: CPK 223-248, Class Forum: Understanding Sexuality

TERM PAPER DUE.

 

12/10 Wed. Puig: Kiss: 234-281

 

Course Requirements and Grading

 

Class Participation: (50% of final grade) Discussion of assigned texts, other readings, and films.

 

WWW Journal and Forum Pages: (20% of final grade) An intellectual journal and a discussion forum in which you will write your reflections, reactions, doubts, comments, questions, topics of interest, etc. in relation to your readings. The Forum Page will deal with specific topics per reading. Entries in these pages should be made as you read the stories and novels.

 

Term Paper: (30% of final grade) 10-12 pages long, typewritten, double-spaced research paper. The topic for this paper will be submitted five weeks before the due date along with a preliminary list of works used (Term Paper Document in the course’s website).

 

Rules to live by

 

1. Active insightful reading and discussion constitute the bulk of the workload in this course. It is expected that your reading will be intensive, extensive, and critical. To assist you in this task reading guides are posted in the course’s website. These highlight situations, topics, questions which in my past readings of the text I have found useful to discuss. In addition, for all texts read there will be weblinks to the corresponding writers in the course’s website. Dynamic oral participation will count substantially towards your final grade. Selected supplementary readings are included in your coursepack (CPK). It is of the essence that all required readings be completed on time for class discussion (avg. 70pp./p.c.).

 

2. This course is offered under the Comparative Values rubric of the Core Curriculum (see attached guidelines). As such it requires a special effort on our part. You will be asked to be as honest and open as possible in trying to explain the values that inform your judgements. This will call on us to be tolerant of others when they explain theirs or question ours. Moreover, it is expected that you will try your best to move beyond mere tolerance to a mature and critical understanding of otherness:

 

A. Stimulate the moral imagination.
B. Identify and understand ethical issues and value conflict in the reading of literary texts.
C. Develop skills to comment, discuss, and analize the implications of ethical issues and  value conflict as they appear in the reading of literary texts.
D. Elicit a sense of moral obligation and personal responsibility in the presence of ethical  issues and value conflict.
E. Develop a strategy to respond to ethical issues and value conflict, as they manifest  themselves in the reading of literary texts, that is based on:
 

 
    (1) Tolerating 
    (2) Understanding  DISAGREEMENT AND AMBIGUITY
    (3) Reducing 
 

3. CLASS ATTENDANCE IS A REQUIREMENT, BUT IN AND OF ITSELF DOES NOT TRANSLATE INTO SATISFACTORY GRADES, HOWEVER, ACTIVE ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL PARTICIPATION DOES.

4. Late work is not acceptable under most circumstances.  Penalties will be imposed for tardiness.  Exceptions may be made upon consultation with your professor.

5. Screenings: Due to time constraints all screenings will be started in class on the day assigned @ 3:15pm and will run until 3:45pm.  The rest of the film must be viewed by you on your own time.  Films will be put in Room 042 in the basement of the Library.  You will need to check in at the Media Desk to obtain a key to the room in order to play the tape.  This room accomodates two to four people at a time.  Make sure to keep this room locked at all times.  If you need to exit for a minute lock the door behind you.  The equipment in the room and the movies are not easily replaceable.  BE MINDFUL.  Theft and vandalism do take place in the Library.

6. FINE PRINT: Your professor reserves the right to amend this syllabus in any manner he sees fit
 

General Links:

Handbook of Latin American Studies On-Line Bibliography from the Library of Congress.

LANIC The essential link to any search on Latin America in the WWW.

Latin World Latin America on the Web!

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