Guia docente
DATOS IDENTIFICATIVOS							2011_12
Asignatura	LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA III					Código	00408146
Enseñanza	LIC. EN FILOLOGIA INGLESA
Descriptores	Cr.totales	Tipo	Curso	Semestre
	6	Optativa	Quinto	Segundo
Idioma	Ingles
Prerrequisitos
Departamento	FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Responsable	MARTÍN JUNQUERA , IMELDA				Correo-e	imarj@unileon.es mjalvm@unileon.es
Profesores/as	ÁLVAREZ MAURÍN , MARÍA JOSÉ MARTÍN JUNQUERA , IMELDA PÉREZ RAMOS , MARÍA ISABEL
Web	http://
Descripción general	Aims: To acquaint the student with the problematic nature of the literary canon, by revising American literary history from a non-canonical perspective. The course will use a wide variety of sources, both literary and otherwise. "
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Objetivos

Aims: To acquaint the student with the problematic nature of the literary canon, by revising American literary history from a non-canonical perspective. The course will use a wide variety of sources, both literary and otherwise. "

Metodologías

"By its very nature, the syllabus of this course is open, and students are expected to actively participate in its elaboration, therefore, class attendance is strongly advised. Lectures, debates and film screening sessions alternate along the year" "

Contenidos

Bloque	Tema
INTRODUCTION: Defining the canon. Canonical and marginal discourse in the different periods. Canon and power. American literary history as a narrative/ ideological discourse. Race, class and gender as literary issues. Literary anthologies and canon. Canon and the teaching of literature. Reading: Paul Lauter, "The literatures of America: A Comparative Discipline" Arnold Krupat,¨"Poscoloniality in Native American Literature" 1.The native voice. The oral traditions of Native Americans. The magical dimension of language: The quest for a mythic vision. Diversity of the native experience. Poetics of nature. Storytellers and storytelling. Native American literature in the 20th century: Tradition and the present. Questions of authenticy, what being ?Indian means?. -N.Scott Momaday, "The Native Voice" -Gerald Viznenor, Literatura india nativo-americana. TEN, nº 25. -Native American Emergence Myths -Selection of poetry -John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks. -Leslie Marmon Silko, "Lullaby" (HAAL II, 2167-2174) __________________, Ceremony -N. Scott Momaday, selections from House Made of Dawn -Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, selections from The Antelope Wife and Tracks. -Paula Gunn Allen, selections from The Sacred Hoop. -James Welch, selections from Winter in the Blood. -Sherman Alexie, selections from Reservation Blues. Film screening: Smoke Signals
2.The African-American experience in literature. Slavery and the question of race. The oral tradition. Slave narratives and the origins of Afro-American fiction. Songs and legends. Black identity: ?Black is beautiful.? The search for the African and Caribbean roots. Eatontown and Zora Neale Hurston. The Harlem Renaissance 1920's to 1950's. Jazz and blues. Autobiographies and sermons. Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and the female negro model. Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara and Ntozake Shange. -African-American folk tales -Olaudah Equiano, selection from his Autobiography. TEN, nº9. -Harriet Jacobs, selection from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (HAAL I,1726-1745). -Booker T. Washington,selection from Up from Slavery (HAAL I, 851-876). -W.W.B. Du Bois, selection from Las almas del pueblo (The Souls of Black Folk) .TEN, nº19. -Selection of writings by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Claude McKay ( HAAL II). -Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream", "I've been to the Mountain Top" ( HAAL II, 1957-1968). -Richard Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" ( HAAL II, 1786-1795) James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues ( HAAL II,1912-1934). -Toni Morrison, selections from The Bluest eye and Sula. -Alice Walker, selections from The Color Purple and screening of the film. - Ntozake Shange. For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.
3. The Chicano experience in literature. The Chicano: the Native and the American.Myths and traditions. The linguistic problem: English or Spanish: Codeswitching. The Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty (1848). "Corridos" and other oral forms. The "Teatro Campesino". César Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Contemporary Chicano writing. Quinto Sol Publications. The 80s or the age of the Chicana: Cisneros, Castillo, Anzaldúa, Gaspar de Alba, Viramontes, etc. Chicana Lesbians and the 90s. The strange case of Arturo Islas. The Tortilla curtain. -Selection of "Corridos" ( HAAL II; 798-813). -Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, "Sometimes it Just Happens That Way: That's All" (HAAL II, 1948-1957). -Tomás Rivera, selections from Y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Didn't Devour Him (HAAL II, 2056-2064). -Rudolfo Anaya, Bless me, Ultima. -Gloria Anzaldúa, selections from Borderlands/ La Frontera (photocopies). -Sandra Cisneros, selections from The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek. -Ana Castillo, selections from The Mixquiahuala Letters and So Far from God. ___________Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma -Ron Arias, selections from The Road to Tamazunchale -Tey Diana Rebolledo, selections from Women Singing in the Snow
4. Asian American literature. Early productions. Massive immigration: the culture of Chinatown. World War II and its impact on Japanese American population. Middle class of ethnic minorities and affirmative action. Asian American women and the patriarcal tradition. Experimentation and new techniques in writing. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and her exhibit: "The Dream of the Audience", the creation of a muse and a myth. -Selections of early writings by Filipino and Korean immigrants. -Maxine Hong Kingston, selections from The Woman Warrior -Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, screening of the film and selections from A Hundred Secret Senses. -Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, selections from Dictee.
5. Spanish speaking minorities. The Cuban diaspora, Puerto Rican "güagüa aérea" and Nuyorican literature, Dominican American immigration. Junot Diaz's urban jungle. The question of race: Blackness and assimilation to African American culture. Santeria and other African traditions. -Piri Thomas, selections from Down these mean streets -Judith Ortiz Cofer, selections from Silent Dancing. -Julia Alvarez, selections from In the Time of the Butterflies, screening of the film. -Junot Diaz, selections from Drown -Cristina García, selections from Dreaming in Cuban. Set readings: Anaya, R. Bless Me Última Erdrich, L. Love Medicine. Tan, A. The Joy Luck Club.

Otras actividades

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Evaluación

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Otros comentarios y segunda convocatoria
"A final examination will be given. Besides that, two essays will be required: the first due by the end of March, and the second by the end of June. Students are also expected to undertake an oral presentation in groups and to complete a quiz after each film screening session. " "

Fuentes de información

Acceso a la Lista de lecturas de la asignatura

Básica	, , ,
	"Lauter, Paul. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1990 Baym, Nina ... [et al.]. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York : Norton, 1994. " "
Complementaria
	"Krupat, A. The voice in the margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Novoa, Bruce. RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, Theory and History. Houston, Tx: Arte Público Press, 1990. " "