Module Code - Title:
SP4628
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WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE IN THE HISPANIC WORLD
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Aims & Objectives:
To develop the students knowledge of different literary modes in 20th-century Hispanic culture.
To introduce students to political and testimonial women's writing in the Hispanic World.
To develop the studentsÆ understanding of different literary and political discourses.
To further develop studentsÆ analytical skills, with a special focus on political women's writing.
Syllabus:
The module will concentrate on the exploration of women's narratives of resistance to power in different textual modes, from testimony to literature, in order to study the different ways in which women have experienced and represented the oppression/repression of dissidence in colonial, neo-colonial and authoritarian regimes in Latin America and Spain
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Analyse effectively and in an organised manner a range of Spanish texts, with a special focus on political womenÆs writing.
Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of different literary modes in 20th-century Hispanic culture.
Identify and explain the relevance of different literary and political discourses in contemporary Spain and Latin America.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Organise analytical arguments in an effective manner in Spanish.
Practise text commentary and analysis of a range of literary and testimonial texts in the target language
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module consists of one weekly lecture where the main items of the syllabus are introduced, and two tutorials where students will be exposed to different cultural artefacts in order to analyse them and relate them to the main issues dealt with in the lectures. Students will also have the opportunity to explore related items through a number of sources (Internet, written and filmic texts) and will develop their own analytical skills by applying the knowledge in a number of group and individual projects.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Montero, Remedios (2004)
Historia de Celia: Recuerdos de una guerrillera antifascista
, Rialla/Octaedro
Cuevas Gutiérrez, Tomasa (2004)
Testimonios de mujeres en las cárceles franquistas
, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses
Menchú, Rigoberta and Elizabeth Burgos (1983)
Me llamo Rigoberto Menchú y así me nació la conciencia
, Siglo XXI
Chiriboga, Luz Argentina (1996)
Drums Under My Skin
, Afro-Hispanic Institute
Other Relevant Texts:
Stoll, D (2002)
Rigoberta Menchú y la historia de los guatemaltecos pobres
, Nódulo
Morales, Mario Roberto (2001)
Stoll-Menchú La invención de la memoria
, Consucultura
Vinyes, Ricard (2002)
Irredentas
, Temas de Hoy
Mangini, Shirley (1995)
Memories of Resistance: Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War
, Yale University Press
Romeu Alfaro, Fernanda (2002)
El silencio roto: Mujeres contra el franquismo
, El Viejo Topo
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Xose.Boan@ul.ie