Spring 1999
Readings:
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pilgrim Stories
Death Constant Beyond Love
Isabel Allende
Eva Luna
Stories of Eva Luna
Christine Bell Saint
Jorge Amado The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
Videos:
The
Perez Family
Don
Juan de Marco
Tentative Grade Breakdown:
Quizzes 10/12
40%
Exam
20%
Presentation
10%
Paper
15%
Participation
15%
Web sites:
Isabel Allende:
In
her own words
Gabriel García Márquez:
1982 Nobel
Prize Acceptance Speech
One
Hundred Years of Solitude
Errata
Family Tree
Light
is like Water
illustration
Syllabus:
February
10 Introduction
12 Jorge Amado The Two Deaths of
Quincas Wateryell
15 Jorge Amado (cont.)
17 The Pérez Family
19 The Pérez Family (cont.)
22 The Pérez Family (cont.)
24 Christine Bell: Saint
26 Christine Bell: Saint
March
1 VHS 3295 Isabel
Allende: The Woman’s Voice in Latin America
3 Allende: “Phantom
Palace”
5 Allende: “Two Words”
8 Allende: Eva Luna
(chapters 1, 2,3)
10 Eva Luna (chapters 4, 5)
12 Eva Luna (chapters 6, 7)
15 Eva Luna (chapters 8, 9)
17 Eva Luna (chapters 10-end)
19 Don Juan de Marco
22 Don Juan de Marco (cont.)
24 Don Juan de Marco (conclusion)
26 Mid-term Exam
March 29 -- April 2 SPRING BREAK
5 From Strange Pilgrims: Prologue,
“The Saint,” “Sleeping Beauty...,” “I Sell My Dreams”
7 From Strange Pilgrims:
“Maria dos Prazeres,” “Seventeen...,” “Tramontana”
9 From Strange Pilgrims:
“Light Is Like Water,” “The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow”
12 García Márquez:
“Death Constant Beyond Love”
14 VHS 1918 GGM: Magic and
Reality
16 García Márquez:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (chapters 1, 2)
19 One Hundred (chapters 3,
4)
21 One Hundred (chapters 5,
6)
23 One Hundred (chapters 7,
8)
26 One Hundred (chapters 9,
10, 11)
28 One Hundred (chapters 12,
13)
30 One Hundred (chapters 14,
15)
May 3 One Hundred (chapters 16, 17, 18)
5 One Hundred
(chapters 19, 20)
7 Esquivel: Like Water
for Chocolate
10 Like Water... (cont.)
12 Like Water... (cont.)
14 Like Water
17 Review
19 Exam
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE: A good grade presupposes participation in class. Information presented in class may appear in quizzes and should be taken into account in papers. Quizzes are designed to monitor reading as well as attendance and cannot be made up if missed.
GRADING: Participation 15%
10/12 Quizzes 40%
Presentation 15%
Mid-term 15%
Final 15%
PRESENTATIONS: Every student must sign up for a presentation. Some presentations will be on the authors; others on characters and themes of the readings. Presentations on the authors should include a detailed biography and current critical analysis of his/her work. Presentations on characters and themes should include a comparison of these topics with those relevant issues that have been previously discussed so as to explain how this material can help us understand the social and/or historical background, the humor, and/or the magic of our class readings. A typed, double-spaced paper of each presentation must be turned in for grading. Papers should be between 10-15 pages long and must include a bilbiography.
***THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
PRESENTATION TOPICS:
Date Topic
3/3 Isabel Allende
3/8 Chile: 1930s to present
Eugenics
3/15 R. Halabí, R. Carlé
& H. Naranjo
3/19 Who was Don Juan? Who is he
now?
Miss Mary (film)
4/5 Gabriel García
Márquez
“The Saint”, “Miracle in Rome”
“I Sell My Dreams”
4/7 “Maria dos Prazeres”
4/9 “Light Is Like Water”
“The Trail of Your Blood...”
4/12 “Death Constant Beyond Love”
4/16 Colombia: 1930s to present
4/30 Colonel Aureliano Buendía
Positivism & Utilitarianism
Aestheticism & Decadence (Art for art’s sake)
5/3 Ursula & Fernanda:
chaos & control
Twins: Aureliano & Arcadio Segundo:
separate but equal
5/5 Petra Cotes, Pilar
Ternera, Amaranta, Rebeca
the shapes of love
Amaranta Ursula, the wise Catalonian
nostalgia’s “rewards”
5/7 Laura Esquivel
Mexico’s Revolution: 1910-1917