Academic Catalog 2017-2018 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SPN 381 - Hauntings in Hispanic Fiction

Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Ghost stories evoke both fear and delight in readers, listeners, or viewers. But beyond entertaining us, tales of haunting can reveal memories, traumas, and social figures that an individual or society has repressed or maybe just never noticed before. For example, a ghostly apparition may serve to remind a nation of historical violence that it has sought to forget. Or it may represent the return of a marginalized social figure silenced in the past and clamoring to be heard in the present. In this course we will explore haunting as a theoretical concept and storytelling device. To do so we will analyze a variety of ghostly narratives - both literary and cinematic - from the Hispanic world. As we summon these fictional phantoms and work to interpret their messages, we will situate each text within its particular cultural, sociopolitical, and intellectual contexts. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203    CC: HUM, HUL, LCCS



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