Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SPAN 4650 - [Autobiography in the Cuban Revolution]


(LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2190 , SPAN 3110 , or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. This is the mandatory senior seminar for Spanish majors.

G. Aching.

This course examines the language through which various autobiographical subjects narrate their relationship to the Cuban Socialist Revolution from different perspectives.  Beginning with Fidel Castro’s pre-revolutionary speech, “La historia me absolverá,” as an example of epic, Republican discourse, the course focuses on Ernesto Che Guevara’s description of the ideal relation between the revolutionary subject and socialism in “El hombre y el socialismo en Cuba”; Edmundo Desnoes’ self-questioning narrator in the novel, Memorias del subdesarrollo; Miguel Barnet’s ethnographic rendering of Esteban Montejo’s life story in Biografía de un cimarrón; and Reinaldo Arenas’ description of his life under the socialist regime as “persona non grata” in Antes que anochezca.  The critical framework for these readings consists of a varitey of reflections on subjectivity and autobiographical writing, such as Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, selected excerpts from Judith Butler’s The Psychic Life of Power, and Syvia Molloy’s At Face Value:Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America.



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