SPN 327 - The Nation at Home: Family and Nationhood in Spanish American Theater

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the study of the dramatic genre through the analysis and discussion of representative works by Spanish American playwrights (Triana, Wolff, Diaz, Gambaro, Arguelles, Berman, Canales, among others). Theoretical readings and diverse critical approaches to theater frame the course around the representation of family as a microcosm in which narratives of nationhood are contested, revised, and imagined. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL