Listed in: Spanish, as SPAN-376
Ilan Stavans (Section 01)
Taught at the Hampshire County Jail, this Inside/Out course is designed as a journey across Hispanic civilization through the prism of the tension between reality and the surreal, the physical world and the world of dreams. Topics like Magical Realism will be explored in depth. Material includes portions of Don Quixote, the play Life Is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca, poems by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and Pablo Neruda, stories by Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, and Gabriel García Márquez, and movies such as Amores Perros and Pan’s Labyrinth. Students will engage in creative efforts (stories, nonfiction, theater, movies) displaying some of the strategies discussed in class. Conducted in English.
Limited to 15 students from Amherst and the Five Colleges and 15 students from the Hampshire County Jail. Spring semester. Professor Stavans.
If Overenrolled: I will chose upper-class students and also look for diversity and pluralism in the AC student-body (and the Five Colleges)
Cost: $100 ?
Section 01
W 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM CONV 108
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook) | New Directions; Reprint edition (May 17, 2007) | Jorge Luis Borges | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Life Is a Dream | Dover Publications; Bilingual edition (December 6, 2002) | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Don Quixote | Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 26, 2005) | Miguel De Cervantes | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much | Everyman's Library (August 12, 2014) | Julio Cortazar | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Poems, Protest, and a Dream | Addison Wesley (March 1, 1997) | Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Collected Stories | Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (May 13, 2008) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| I Explain a Few Things | Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition (October 2, 2007) | Pablo Neruda | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Plain in Flames | University of Texas Press; Tra edition (September 1, 2012) | Juan Rulfo | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.