2018-2019 Catalog 
    
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SPAN124 CM - Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship

The fall of Franco’s authoritarian regime brought an amazing new cultural diversity to Spain. This course explores new voices (women, transvestites, generation X, political exiles, and others) that have reappeared in literature, film, and mass media since 1975. How were they silenced under dictatorship? How did the transition change literature, film, and historical memory? How have new voices constructed competing visions of democracy? We consider life under dictatorship; “La Movida” of the 1980s; ETA and terrorism; youth and gender movements; popular culture and the construction of new Spanish identities in Almodóvar, Bollaín, Amenábar, Tusquets, Martín Gaite, Goytisolo, Mendicutti, and others.

Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

Offered: Every other year

Credit: 1

Course Number: SPAN124 CM