Introduction to Latin American literature - first part 3223-WLL-OG

Students learn the literature of Latin America - the most important trends and works - as well as the broader context of Latin America, necessary to understand the Latin American literary and historical processes: history, social and political issues, culture, arts.
Program:

1. Outline of colonial literature:
Chronicles of India. Prose and epic poetry of discovery and conquest (Juan de Castellanos, Alonso de Ercilla, Diaz del Castillo).
The poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The epic of colonial period: from Rodriguez Freyle to Fernandez Lizardi.
2. Literature of Latin America in the nineteenth century
3. Panorama of Latin American literature in the twentieth century:
trends, currents, themes and motifs, literary generations, forms and literary genres. Review of selected national literatures.
4. J.L.Borges.
5. J.Cortázar.
6. The magical realism and the fantastic
7. A.Carpentier.
11. G.García Márquez.
12. M.Vargas Llosa
13. Mexican literature: O.Paz, J.Rulfo, C.Fuentes, Fernando del Paso.
13. Historical discourse in Latin American narrative (new historical novel).
14. Nurty w XX-wiecznej poezji latynoamerykańskiej.
15. On the threshold of the twenty-first century: the latest trends in Latin American prose.

Type of course

general courses

Bibliography

Texts

• J.L.Borges, Relatos (Ficciones, El Aleph, El informe de Brodie, Libro de arena), El hacedor, Otras inquisiciones (edition: Wyd.Prószyński
• J.Cortázar, Relatos, Rayuela (edition: Wyd. Muza)
• A.Carpentier, El siglo de las luces, Guerra del tiempo, Concierto barroco
• G.García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, El otoño del patriarca, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
• M.Vargas Llosa, Conversación en la Catedral, La guerra del fin del mundo
• C.Fuentes, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura
• J.Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

Bibliography
• Adam Elbanowski, Świadectwa, metafory, fabulacje: współczesna literatura Ameryki Łacińskiej, Wyd. CESLA UW, Warszawa 2013.
Additional bibliography
• Enrique Anderson Imbert, Historia literatury hispanoamerykańskiej, T. I, “Okres kolonialny. Sto lat niepodległości”, PWN, Warszawa 1988; t. II “Epoka współczesna”, PWN, Warszawa 1986.
• Dzieje kultury latynoamerykańskiej, red. Marcin F. Gawrycki, PWN, Warszawa 2009.
• Nina Pluta, Ewa Łukaszyk, Historia literatur iberoamerykańskich, Ossolineum 2010.

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