SPAN 6330 - [Spain and the Philippines]

(crosslisted) ASIAN 6672

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ASIAN 4472/SPAN 4330.

J. Chang.

Fil-Hispanic literature and art has historical been a neglected area of study in Spanish departments. This course provides a survey of the Philippines’ most influential cultural producers in Spanish beginning in the nineteenth-century. We will also look at how Filipino and Spanish writers, intellectuals, and state actors imagined the relationship between Spain and Philippines during and after the colonial period.