Spanish 192B –Novel of Post-Franco Spain
Professor Kathleen Pollakowski, Spring 2008

The death of General Francisco Franco in 1975 marked the beginning of a new era in Spain. For writers, no longer restricted by Franco’s regime of institutionalized censorship, the change brought artistic freedom. What has emerged in the Spanish novel since then? This course will attempt to answer the question by examining representative works that represent the diversity of contemporary Spanish fiction. Authors to be studied are Carmen Martín Gaite, Eduardo Mendoza, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Dulce Chacón, and Carme Riera.

Discussions of Themes:
 
  • women authors; writing as a profession;
  • memory and remembrance;
  • detective novels/mystery, Roman Noir (as literary genres);
  • social conditions/issues such as domestic abuse.

Library Research Sources & Strategies
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Critical Biographies

Dictionary of Literary Biography. (online)
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select. (online)
Del franquismo a la posmodernidad: la novela española (1975-1999): análisis y diccionario de autores. (Stacks: PQ6144 .L36 2000)
Spanish women writers: a bio-bibliographical source book. (Ref. PQ6055 .S63 1993)

Terms and Concepts:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.  (online)
 
Cultural and Historical Backgrounds

Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture. (Ref. DP233.5 .E63 1999)
The Cambridge companion to modern Spanish culture. (Reserves: DP48 .C233 1999)
 
Literary Surveys

Enciclopedia de la novela española. (Ref. PQ6138 .M67 1999)
The contemporary Spanish novel: an annotated, critical bibliography, 1936-1994. (Stacks: PQ6144.Z99 A44 1996)
La novela social española : conformación ideológica, teoría y crítica. (Stacks: PQ6144 .A4 1996)
A new history of Spanish literature. (stacks: PQ6033 .C45 1991)
 
Literary Criticism and Interpretation
books Books
  • Tufts Library Catalog [http://library.tufts.edu/]
  • WorldCat.  [From the Tisch Library website, http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/, select Other Library Catalogs]
    Note: you DO NOT NEED to include accents in Spanish words in these catalogs.
 
articles Articles in scholarly journals (from the Tisch Library Homepage [http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/], select Databases and Articles.)
Key Databases   Other Relevant Databases
  • MLA International Bibliography  1923 -  
    an international index to books and journals on the modern languages and literatures, including linguistics and folklore.
  • JSTOR and Project Muse
    These are two collections of electronic journals in many different disciplines. Project Muse offers more recent issues, while JSTOR has more earlier issues. There are some overlap of journals in the two collections.

Note: MLA is the most comprehensive and authoritative source for the literature of the discipline, and links directly to our electronic journals. JSTOR and Project Muse, while far from being as comprehensive, offers the advantages of an multidisciplinary coverage and full texts.

  • PRISMA (an electronic journals collection)
    PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. It offers key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) (see below).
  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAP) 1970-
    Indexes more than 500 scholarly journals published throughout the Western world about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
 
  • Essay and General Literature Index  1985 -
    Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
  • Historical Abstracts 1969-
    Scholarly literature in European and world history from 1450 to the present. Does not include the United States and Canada.

 

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