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Undergraduate Courses Spanish and Portuguese Descriptions Fall 2013
(Room assignments subject to change)
SPAN 206: Spanish for Business and Economics (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
01 MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 104
02 MWF 11:10-12:00 Calhoun 104
Lori.Catanzaro@Vanderbilt.edu
This course provides a thorough foundation in business vocabulary and an overview of business and cultural concepts, emphasizing international business communications skills through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Focusing on the role of the international manager, the course emphasizes vocabulary related to corporate organization and structure, finance, banking and accounting processes, capital investment, human resources, the production of goods and services, marketing, financial management, and international operations articulated within the geographic and cultural context of the Spanish-speaking world and its place in the global economy. Students are evaluated through essays, tests, oral presentations, final project, and final exam.
SPAN 207: Advanced Conversation (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
01 MWF 2:10-3:00 Buttrick 309
02 MWF 11:10-12:00 Calhoun 204
This class is an advanced conversation class that will offer an intra-cultural approach contrasting Spanish, Spanish American and US perspectives. This is a content-based course that focuses primarily on the development of advanced oral language skills. The class format will consist of class discussions, debates, oral presentations, interviews and electronic discussions on contemporary issues. This class is designed for students with a high level of proficiency, especially those returning from a study abroad program. Some of the issues covered in this class will be gender relations, cultural identity, social relations, value systems, religion and education. This class is closed to native speakers.
SPAN 208: Advanced Conversation through Cultural Issues in Film (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 219
Elena.O.Segovia@Vanderbilt.edu
Advanced conversation course using fifteen films in Spanish, from eight areas of the Spanish-speaking world, as the basis for discussion of linguistic, historic, cultural, and social issues.
This course is not recommended for students coming directly from Spanish 202 or Spanish 203. It is intended for students with a high level of aural/oral proficiency, especially those returning from study abroad. It is not open to students of Hispanic descent/native speakers of Spanish.
All fifteen movies have no subtitles. Students typically need to watch each movie at least twice. Final grade will be based on intense class participation, fifteen critical reviews, two exams, and two portfolio presentations.
SPAN 211: Spanish for the Medical Profession *Service Learning Course (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Calhoun 104
Lori.Catanzaro@Vanderbilt.edu
Service-learning based, this advanced conversation course incorporates extensive medical terminology, public policy and cultural competency issues related to health care and the Latino population in the United States. Students are evaluated through essays, tests, oral presentations, service work, and final exam. Prerequisite: 201W and 202; closed to native speakers of Spanish.
SPAN 214: Dialectology (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
TR 1:10-2:25 Calhoun 203
Phillip.D.Rasico@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will examine the formation, general characteristics and distinctive features, as well as the geographical extension, of the principal dialectal regions of Spain and Spanish America. Both historical and modern dialects will be considered. Emphasis will be given to phonological variation and to the study of non-standard linguistic features, which will be analyzed vis-à-vis those of modern standard Spanish (Castilian).
SPAN 216: Phonology (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
01 MWF 1:10 Buttrick 202
02 MWF 2:10 Buttrick 202
Cynthia.Wasick@Vanderbilt.edu
Spanish Phonology consists of the study of phonological theory, as well as the practical application of its principles, as applied to the Spanish language. The primary goal of the course is to enable students to improve their pronunciation of Spanish through an analysis of the nature and the production of Spanish sounds and of pronunciation problems frequently experienced by non-native speakers. The course will provide a general understanding of the nature of human language, how speech sounds are produced and function discretely as a component of a linguistic system, and how the sounds of Spanish differ in nature and in distribution from those of English and other languages. Also considered are pronunciation problems due to spelling differences. Both standard and dialectal pronunciations of Spanish will be analyzed. Students will make six recordings based upon an assigned text in order to analyze and perfect Spanish pronunciation skills. There will be three quizzes and two exams.
Preparación, participación activa y tareas....................................12%
6 Grabaciones (6 x 3%)...................................................................18%
3 Pruebas (3 x 10%)...............................................................................30%
2 Exámenes (Mid-term 20% y Final 20%)...........................................40%
Classpak (Required: Must be purchased by the second class meeting): Dalbor, John B. Spanish Pronunciation: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1997.
SPAN 219: History of the Spanish Language (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 103
Philip.D.Rasico@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will examine in detail the evolution of the Spanish (Castilian) language from its Vulgar Latin origins to its modern forms. Emphasis will be given to the analysis of the phonological and morphological development of Spanish within the context of the historical and cultural background of the Iberian Peninsula. The impact of non-Roman languages and cultures upon Spanish will be considered as well as the evolution of various non-Castilian languages and dialects of Spain.
SPAN 220: Languages of Spain (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
MWF 11:10-12:00 Wilson 122
Cynthia.Wasick@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will give students a brief overview of the formation of the Spanish languages of the Iberian Peninsula and their development into the modern languages of Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. In addition, we will briefly explore the non-Indo-European language of Basque. We will analyze each respective language by focusing on the differences in the lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features and systems. We will discuss issues related to bilingualism, biculturalism and the debate between linguistic theory, actual linguistic reality and the legislation and imposition of official linguistic policy by government and language academies. There will be four quizzes, one group presentation of a linguistic study, one 3 page reflection paper based upon the linguistic study and one final take home exam.
Preparation, active participation and assignments..........................15%
4 quizzes (4 x 10%)........................................................................40%
1 group presentation and personal reflection paper (1 x 20%)..............20%
1 Final Exam – Take Home (1 x 25%)...............................................25%
Readings and course materials located on OAK.
SPAN 223: Spanish American Civilization (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Buttrick 305
Jose.Cardenas-Bunsen@Vanderbilt.edu
An interdisciplinary approach to the changing concept of America and Latin America as it appears in essays written by the historical protagonists, writers and thinkers from Colonial Times, Independence, National states to the current discussions on globalization. Readings by Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, José Carlos Mariategui, Néstor García Canclini, among others.
SPAN 226: Film and Recent Cultural Trends in Spain (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
TR 1:10-2:25 Calhoun 320
Michelle.Shepherd@Vandebilt.edu
This course explores issues in contemporary Spanish culture through the medium of film. Themes include the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, the Transition to democracy, nationalisms, migration, and gender; and films may include La aldea maldita (dir. Florián Rey 1930), Bienvenido Mr. Marshall (dir. Luis García Berlanga 1952), Cría cuervos (dir. Carlos Saura 1976), Te doy mis ojos (dir. Icíar Bollaín 2003) and El laberinto del fauno (dir. Guillermo del Toro 2006). In addition, we will read complementary articles that serve as tools that help us understand cinematic and cultural critique. Grades will be determined through class participation, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final essay.
SPAN 234: Spanish Literature from 1900 to the Present (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 9:35-10:50 Furman 325
Michelle.Shepherd@Vanderbilt.edu
This course presents a panorama of Spanish literary production; students will familiarize themselves with the sociopolitical and cultural context of twentieth and twenty-first century Spain and develop skills in reading and analyzing works of literature. Readings will include works by Miguel de Unamuno, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Vicente Alexaindre, Ana María Matute, Ramón Sender, Alfonso Sastre, Ana Rosetti, Lourdes Ortiz, and José María Merino. Grades will be determined through participation, daily reflections, quizzes, a midterm essay, and a final essay.
SPAN 235: Spanish American Literature from the Conquest to 1900 (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
MWF 1:10-2:00 Stevenson Center 1312
Ruth.Hill@Vanderbilt.edu
In this course we shall be analyzing the cultural contexts, key themes, and literary devices of a cluster of Latin American texts from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Our focus will range from the religious (sermons, paintings, life stories) to the scientific (excerpts from works in physics, natural history, medicine), and from the social (historiography, theater) to the personal (lyric poetry, letters). Requirements include three papers (5 pp.) written in Spanish.
SPAN 236: Spanish American Literature from 1900 to the Present (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 1:10-2:25 Buttrick 301
Cathy.L.Jrade@Vanderbilt.edu
El curso tiene como propósito familiarizar a los estudiantes con los diferentes géneros literarios producidos en Hispanoamérica durante los siglos XX y XXI. Se leerán a los novelistas, cuentistas, y ensayistas más famosos del período, unos de los cuales son Mario Vargas Llosa, ganador del Premio Nobel en Literatura de 2010, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, y Rosario Castellanos. También se leerán a varios poetas muy conocidos. El curso —tanto como la literatura de esta época— pone hincapié en la cuestión de identidad —nacional, cultural, sexual, e intelectual—, la interacción entre el destino personal y la trayectoria histórica, el papel de la literatura y del escritor, y la relación entre el poder y el lenguaje.
La nota final se calcula de acuerdo con la fórmula siguiente:
Exámenes (2)........................................................................... 30%
Trabajos escritos (2)................................................................. 40%
Presentación oral...................................................................... 10%
Participación diaria, tareas, y examencitos no-anunciados....... 20%
SPAN 239: Development of the Novel (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 104
Andres.Zamora@vanderbilt.edu
The history of the Spanish and Latin American Novel up to 1900 is full of perplexities and paradoxes. From 1550 to 1650, roughly, the modern Western novel was born in Spain basically through a new narrative genre, the Picaresque, and a prodigious single work: Don Quijote. In the meantime, books of narrative prose were prohibited in the Spanish Colonies of the New World. But in Europe the Picaresque novel and Cervantes' book did not find any constraints and they were widely read in the original or in translation. The Spanish texts sparked a literary revolution in the Continent and in England, working as the omnipresent bases and models of the great development of the novel, especially during the eighteenth century. Ironically, by that time Spain, that had started everything, was hardly producing any novels at all. In its turn, Latin America went on in its enforced novelistic silence. But in the nineteenth century the situation changed again. The independence movement in Latin America was accompanied or followed by a flourishing of novels, many of them struggling to establish a new national identity. Meanwhile the novel was making a return in the old metropolis, in Spain. The genre that had been exported to Europe 200 years before was coming back translated from foreign languages and in new forms, and appealing to a wider and wider reading public, which was now massively incorporating the new middle classes and women. The Spanish writers imitated the European models and rediscovered their novelistic tradition through them. By the 1870s the novel was unequivocally the most important genre in the country. However, Europe was not paying any attention this time. Spain had become too small, poor and peripheral a country. The Spanish novels, despite their many strengths, never made it to the European canon. The class will explore this novelistic journey by reading Lazarillo de Tormes, the anonymous romance El abencerraje, fragments of Don Quijote by Cervantes, a "novella" by María de Zayas, Sab by the Transatlantic Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Tormento by Benito Pérez Galdós.
SPAN 244: Afro-Hispanic Literature (Major: Literature; AXLE: P)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 117
William.Luis@vanderbilt.edu
The African presence in Spanish America represents an important and indispensable part of this region's history. However, people of African descent contribute to a different interpretation of the same history, one that is written not from a dominant but a marginal perspective. Afro-Hispanic literature can be traced to the early nineteenth century, when Cuban antislavery writers wrote about slavery. In the twentieth century authors continued to write about slaves and the lives of other blacks. In this course we will study Afro-Hispanic literature, from its inception to the present, written in countries like Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama, and Peru. We will read works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and focus on the antislavery narrative, Negrismo and Afro-Caribbean poetry, Afro-Cuban religions (Santería), and blacks in films. Some of the readings may include Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab, Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo, Miguel Barnet's Biografía de un cimarrón, Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas, Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores, and Quince Duncan's Los cuatro espejos.
SPAN 294-01: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (Major: Elective; No AXLE credit)
Topic: Jungle Narratives
MWF 12:10-1:00 Furman 007
Jose.Cardenas-Bunsen@Vanderbilt.edu
This course examines narratives about journeys to the Latin American jungle in poetry, fiction, anthropology, and the visual arts. Particular focus is placed on their relation to imperialism and their connection to nature, the law, and issues of identity. Readings by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Narrative; Juan León Mera, Cumandá; Rómulo Gallegos, Canaima; José Eustasio Rivera, The Vortex; Lydia Cabrera, Cuentos negros; Borges, The Ethnographer; Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps; Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller, and others.
SPAN 294-02: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (Major: Elective; No AXLE credit)
Topic: Modern Latin American Poetry
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
This course, conducted in Spanish, focuses on the development of poetry in Spanish America and Brazil during the twentieth century. The course covers all the major poets and movements, including both Spanish American Modernismo and Brazilian Modernismo. The course begins with a discussion of poetry as a genre and examines its distinguishing characteristics and features. As part of this exercise, the students will be writing, and discussing, their own poetry. The final grade is based on oral presentations, on short papers, and on a longer final paper. The importance of grammar and pronunciation are stressed as well as the quality of the critical commentary offered.
Note: Students who do all written work in Portuguese may apply with the DUS for a variance to count this course for Portuguese.
PORTUGUESE
Spanish Majors may take Portuguese 102 (a beginning course designed for Spanish speakers, offered every semester) as an elective in the Spanish major (but not the minor).
PORT 102: Intensive Elementary Portuguese (Elective in Spanish Major; AXLE: INT)
01 MTRF 11:10-12:00 Wilson 127
02 MTRF 12:10-1:00 Buttrick 301
An accelerated introduction to reading, writing, speaking and listening. Emphasis on practical usage. Open to students with prior study of another Romance language or by permission of instructor. NOTE: May be counted as 3 hours of elective toward the Spanish major. [4 hours]
PORT 200: Intermediate Portuguese (AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Wilson 121
Emanuelle.Oliveira@Vanderbilt.edu
Intermediate Portuguese 200 is a course offering for students who have taken Portuguese 100B, 102 or have acquired Portuguese background elsewhere and wish to continue studying the language. The course is designed to offer a review of grammar through the use of music and other cultural elements (film, television programs, web resources, etc).
PORT 203: Brazilian Pop Culture (AXLE: INT)
MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 204
Emanuelle.Oliveira@Vanderbilt.edu
Portuguese through Pop Culture is a content-based course with emphasis on Brazilian Pop Culture as a tool for acquiring advanced vocabulary, training conversational skills, and developing writing proficiency. This course seeks to explore various aspects of Brazilian culture while practicing advanced level grammar topics, discussing the readings, and engaging in the process of writing.
PORT 225: Brazilian Cutlure through Native Materials (AXLE: P)
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 325
Marcio.Bahia@Vanderbilt.edu
In this course we will have a historical overview of Brazilian cultural production through the analysis of objects as diverse as sitcoms, soap operas, movies and songs. It will be divided into four main segments: music, cinema, TV and sports. Students will study Brazilian music from the birth of Bossa Nova (1950s) and MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, 1960s) to contemporary musical phenomena such as tecnobrega, funk carioca and sertanejo universitário. We will discuss the development of Brazilian cinema from the Cinema Novo in the 1960s to the retomada in the mid-1990s. In the TV section, we will examine the impact of telenovelas and the role of the mighty Rede Globo in Brazilian society. Finally, beyond the insurmountable importance of soccer, we will also study the development of volleyball as today's second most popular sport in Brazil.
PORT 294-01: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature or Civilization (No AXLE credit)
Topic: Machado, Clarice, and Pessoa
TR 1:10-2:25 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
This course concentrates on three of the Portuguese language's greatest writers, the Brazilians Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector, and the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, often hailed as the last of the great European modernists. The texts we will read are the following: Machado de Assis: O Alienista, Esau e Jaco, and Memorial de Aires, plus selected works from his theater and poetry; Clarice Lispector: A Paixão Segundo G. H., A Via Crucis do Corpo, and Agua Viva (the text that, in French translation, provided Helene Cixous with the prototype for her very influential theory of "l'écriture feminine"); and, from Pessoa, poems in his own voice as well as poems in the voices of his famous heteronyms. Will count as an advanced literature course in the Spanish and Portuguese Major or the Portuguese minor.
PORT 294-02: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature or Civilization (No AXLE credit) See SPAN 294-02
Topic: Modern Latin American Poetry
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
Portuguese students should sign up for this course under Span 294-02 (see description under SPAN). If all written work is presented in Portuguese, they may request a variance from the DUS to count if as a Portuguese course.
Senior Majors may, with permission of the instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, take a graduate level course. Registration must be handled separately through the Graduate School.
SPAN 303: The Art of Research and Grant Proposal Writing
R 3:10-5:30 Furman 319
Susan.Berk-Seligson@vanderbilt.edu
This course will be conducted in workshop format. It is designed to help graduate students write grant proposals for university-wide competitions for research funds, but will cover the area of grantspersonship more generally. The approach to the course will be to focus on each student's own research project. Students will draft and submit for collective discussion different components of their proposals, leading up to the term project, namely grant proposals that are ready for submission to external funding agencies. The course is useful for students planning to apply both for internal University funding (e.g., Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award Program, Penn Warren Humanities Center, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) summer travel awards [FLAS, Tinker, Simon Collier], and external fellowships and grants (e.g., Fulbright, Fulbright-Hayes, National Endowment for the Humanities). For those planning to enter the academic job market, the course will prepare them for internal faculty and external grant competitions once they are professors in the tenure-track.
In addition, the course will cover topics such as how to prepare manuscripts for submission to journals, how to write abstracts for consideration by conference organizing committees, and how to prepare for entry into the academic job market.
SPAN/PORT 310: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Also listed as Portuguese 310)
M 3:10-5:40 Furman 109
Virginia.M.Scott@Vanderbilt.edu
Principles and practices of teaching a second language, with concentration on recent interactive and communicative models of foreign language instruction. Goals of the course are 1) to introduce principles of Second Language Acquisition and learning, 2) to critically read relevant literature in the area(s), and 3) to develop FL instructor's awareness through reflective and critical thinking. Classroom observations, journal writing, development of materials, and a small action research project are expected. Required of all entering teaching assistants.
SPAN 343: Early Modern Spanish Drama
Topic: The Comedia and Beyond
T 3:10-5:30 Wilson 127
Edward.H.Friedman@Vanderbilt.edu
The course will begin with the frustrated but talented dramatist Miguel de Cervantes, will focus on Lope de Vega and the development of the comedia nueva, and will consider representative works of the neoclassical and Romantic periods. Emphasis will be on reading and discussion of individual plays, a consideration of their multiple contexts, and a survey of dramatic theory from classical antiquity to the present, including performance theory.
Texts will include:
Miguel de Cervantes, La Numancia, "El retablo de las maravillas"
Lope de Vega, "Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo," El caballero de Olmedo, Fuenteovejuna, La dama boba, El castigo sin venganza
Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, El médico de su honra, La vida es sueño
María de Zayas, La traición en la amistad
Ana Caro, Valor, agravio y mujer
Leandro Fernández de Moratín, El sí de las niñas
Ángel Saavedra, Duque de Rivas, Don Álvaro, o la fuerza del sino
José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio
Selected criticism
There will be a reading assignment and a short written exercise for each week. Evaluation will be based on the exercises and class participation (70%) and a final paper of ten to twelve pages (30%). The class will be given in Spanish. The final paper may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
SPAN 352: Issues in Hispanic Cinema
Topic: Transatlantic Voyages
R 3:10-5:30 Wilson 127
Andres.Zamora@Vanderbilt.edu
A study of the pervasiveness of transatlantic travels in contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema and its possible connection with those primordial historical expeditions that fated the destinies and the profiles of the two sides of the Ocean. A tentative list of movies to examine includes "Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto" (Díaz Yanes), "El cuarteto de la Habana" (Fernando Colomo), "Amores perros" (González Iñárritu), "Y tu mamá también" (Cuarón), "Flores de otro mundo" (Bollain), "Princesas" (León de Aranoa), "La puta y la ballena" (Puenzo), "Plata Quemada" (Piñeyro), "Todo sobre mi madre" (Almodóvar), "Lugares comunes" (Aristarain), "La virgen de la lujuria" (Ripstein), "El espinazo del diablo" (Del Toro) y "Aunque estés lejos" (Tabío).
SPAN 375: Studies in Trans-Atlantic Literature
Topic: Poetry in the Era of Memory
M 4:10-6:30 Furman 319
Christina.Karageorgou@Vanderbilt.edu
The purpose of this seminar is to work on a highly debatable topic: lyric trends dealing with memory, oblivion, and social responsibility in modern Hispanic poetry. Moreover, the focus of the course is a dialog of temporal and spatial resonances that coverthe twentieth century and expand over the Atlantic to bridge the distance that separates Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Through pairs of poets such as Xavier Villaurrutia (Mexico) and Federico García Lorca (Spain), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) and Luis Cernuda (Spain), Susana Thénon (Argentina) and María Ángeles Pérez López (Spain), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay/Spain) and Noni Benegas (Argentina/Spain), we will examine ways of telling history beyond narration. The word history here means both historical events and social issues that galvanize the polis and its citizens. The theoretical basis of the course will be formed by reflections on art, poetry and society on behalf of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Paul Ricoeur.
Evaluation
Oral presentations on Ricoeur, Bloch, Benjamin, and AdornoA series of four interpretive essays, up to five pages each, on any four out of the eight poets and their works to be discussed throughout the course. Each essay is due the day we discuss the poet and her/his work in class (see reading schedule below).A final research/interpretation essay of up to 6000 words (without notes and bibliography), on any one of the eight poets included in the course.
All essays should be sent as attached Word documents to my email before class.
SPAN 389: Special Topics in Spanish American Literature
Topic: Narratives of Nation Building
W 3:10-5:30 Furman 319
Ruth.Hill@Vanderbilt.edu
This course examines U.S. and Latin American nationalisms and literatures (primarily prose from the long-19th century) from the perspective of Hemispheric American Studies. Our secondary readings shall encompass theoretical piece from this field as well as from Latin American Studies. Primary texts may include: A. Bello, Silvas americanas; J. J. Fernández de Lizardi, La Quijotita y su prima; S. Morton, Crania Americana (selections); W. H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru (selections), History of the Conquest of Mexico (selections); W. W. Brown, Clotel, or The President's Daughter; D. F. Sarmiento, "Espíritu y condiciones de la Historia en América," "North and South America," Vida de Abrán Lincoln (introd.); M. Peabody Mann, Juanita; J. E. Rodó, Ariel; George Schuyler, Black No More.
(Room assignments subject to change)
SPANISH
SPAN 206: Spanish for Business and Economics (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
01 MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 104
02 MWF 11:10-12:00 Calhoun 104
Lori.Catanzaro@Vanderbilt.edu
This course provides a thorough foundation in business vocabulary and an overview of business and cultural concepts, emphasizing international business communications skills through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Focusing on the role of the international manager, the course emphasizes vocabulary related to corporate organization and structure, finance, banking and accounting processes, capital investment, human resources, the production of goods and services, marketing, financial management, and international operations articulated within the geographic and cultural context of the Spanish-speaking world and its place in the global economy. Students are evaluated through essays, tests, oral presentations, final project, and final exam.
SPAN 207: Advanced Conversation (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
01 MWF 2:10-3:00 Buttrick 309
02 MWF 11:10-12:00 Calhoun 204
This class is an advanced conversation class that will offer an intra-cultural approach contrasting Spanish, Spanish American and US perspectives. This is a content-based course that focuses primarily on the development of advanced oral language skills. The class format will consist of class discussions, debates, oral presentations, interviews and electronic discussions on contemporary issues. This class is designed for students with a high level of proficiency, especially those returning from a study abroad program. Some of the issues covered in this class will be gender relations, cultural identity, social relations, value systems, religion and education. This class is closed to native speakers.
SPAN 208: Advanced Conversation through Cultural Issues in Film (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 219
Elena.O.Segovia@Vanderbilt.edu
Advanced conversation course using fifteen films in Spanish, from eight areas of the Spanish-speaking world, as the basis for discussion of linguistic, historic, cultural, and social issues.
This course is not recommended for students coming directly from Spanish 202 or Spanish 203. It is intended for students with a high level of aural/oral proficiency, especially those returning from study abroad. It is not open to students of Hispanic descent/native speakers of Spanish.
All fifteen movies have no subtitles. Students typically need to watch each movie at least twice. Final grade will be based on intense class participation, fifteen critical reviews, two exams, and two portfolio presentations.
SPAN 211: Spanish for the Medical Profession *Service Learning Course (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Calhoun 104
Lori.Catanzaro@Vanderbilt.edu
Service-learning based, this advanced conversation course incorporates extensive medical terminology, public policy and cultural competency issues related to health care and the Latino population in the United States. Students are evaluated through essays, tests, oral presentations, service work, and final exam. Prerequisite: 201W and 202; closed to native speakers of Spanish.
SPAN 214: Dialectology (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
TR 1:10-2:25 Calhoun 203
Phillip.D.Rasico@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will examine the formation, general characteristics and distinctive features, as well as the geographical extension, of the principal dialectal regions of Spain and Spanish America. Both historical and modern dialects will be considered. Emphasis will be given to phonological variation and to the study of non-standard linguistic features, which will be analyzed vis-à-vis those of modern standard Spanish (Castilian).
SPAN 216: Phonology (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
01 MWF 1:10 Buttrick 202
02 MWF 2:10 Buttrick 202
Cynthia.Wasick@Vanderbilt.edu
Spanish Phonology consists of the study of phonological theory, as well as the practical application of its principles, as applied to the Spanish language. The primary goal of the course is to enable students to improve their pronunciation of Spanish through an analysis of the nature and the production of Spanish sounds and of pronunciation problems frequently experienced by non-native speakers. The course will provide a general understanding of the nature of human language, how speech sounds are produced and function discretely as a component of a linguistic system, and how the sounds of Spanish differ in nature and in distribution from those of English and other languages. Also considered are pronunciation problems due to spelling differences. Both standard and dialectal pronunciations of Spanish will be analyzed. Students will make six recordings based upon an assigned text in order to analyze and perfect Spanish pronunciation skills. There will be three quizzes and two exams.
Preparación, participación activa y tareas....................................12%
6 Grabaciones (6 x 3%)...................................................................18%
3 Pruebas (3 x 10%)...............................................................................30%
2 Exámenes (Mid-term 20% y Final 20%)...........................................40%
Classpak (Required: Must be purchased by the second class meeting): Dalbor, John B. Spanish Pronunciation: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1997.
SPAN 219: History of the Spanish Language (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 103
Philip.D.Rasico@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will examine in detail the evolution of the Spanish (Castilian) language from its Vulgar Latin origins to its modern forms. Emphasis will be given to the analysis of the phonological and morphological development of Spanish within the context of the historical and cultural background of the Iberian Peninsula. The impact of non-Roman languages and cultures upon Spanish will be considered as well as the evolution of various non-Castilian languages and dialects of Spain.
SPAN 220: Languages of Spain (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)
MWF 11:10-12:00 Wilson 122
Cynthia.Wasick@Vanderbilt.edu
This course will give students a brief overview of the formation of the Spanish languages of the Iberian Peninsula and their development into the modern languages of Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. In addition, we will briefly explore the non-Indo-European language of Basque. We will analyze each respective language by focusing on the differences in the lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features and systems. We will discuss issues related to bilingualism, biculturalism and the debate between linguistic theory, actual linguistic reality and the legislation and imposition of official linguistic policy by government and language academies. There will be four quizzes, one group presentation of a linguistic study, one 3 page reflection paper based upon the linguistic study and one final take home exam.
Preparation, active participation and assignments..........................15%
4 quizzes (4 x 10%)........................................................................40%
1 group presentation and personal reflection paper (1 x 20%)..............20%
1 Final Exam – Take Home (1 x 25%)...............................................25%
Readings and course materials located on OAK.
SPAN 223: Spanish American Civilization (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Buttrick 305
Jose.Cardenas-Bunsen@Vanderbilt.edu
An interdisciplinary approach to the changing concept of America and Latin America as it appears in essays written by the historical protagonists, writers and thinkers from Colonial Times, Independence, National states to the current discussions on globalization. Readings by Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, José Carlos Mariategui, Néstor García Canclini, among others.
SPAN 226: Film and Recent Cultural Trends in Spain (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)
TR 1:10-2:25 Calhoun 320
Michelle.Shepherd@Vandebilt.edu
This course explores issues in contemporary Spanish culture through the medium of film. Themes include the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, the Transition to democracy, nationalisms, migration, and gender; and films may include La aldea maldita (dir. Florián Rey 1930), Bienvenido Mr. Marshall (dir. Luis García Berlanga 1952), Cría cuervos (dir. Carlos Saura 1976), Te doy mis ojos (dir. Icíar Bollaín 2003) and El laberinto del fauno (dir. Guillermo del Toro 2006). In addition, we will read complementary articles that serve as tools that help us understand cinematic and cultural critique. Grades will be determined through class participation, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final essay.
SPAN 234: Spanish Literature from 1900 to the Present (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 9:35-10:50 Furman 325
Michelle.Shepherd@Vanderbilt.edu
This course presents a panorama of Spanish literary production; students will familiarize themselves with the sociopolitical and cultural context of twentieth and twenty-first century Spain and develop skills in reading and analyzing works of literature. Readings will include works by Miguel de Unamuno, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Vicente Alexaindre, Ana María Matute, Ramón Sender, Alfonso Sastre, Ana Rosetti, Lourdes Ortiz, and José María Merino. Grades will be determined through participation, daily reflections, quizzes, a midterm essay, and a final essay.
SPAN 235: Spanish American Literature from the Conquest to 1900 (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
MWF 1:10-2:00 Stevenson Center 1312
Ruth.Hill@Vanderbilt.edu
In this course we shall be analyzing the cultural contexts, key themes, and literary devices of a cluster of Latin American texts from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Our focus will range from the religious (sermons, paintings, life stories) to the scientific (excerpts from works in physics, natural history, medicine), and from the social (historiography, theater) to the personal (lyric poetry, letters). Requirements include three papers (5 pp.) written in Spanish.
SPAN 236: Spanish American Literature from 1900 to the Present (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 1:10-2:25 Buttrick 301
Cathy.L.Jrade@Vanderbilt.edu
El curso tiene como propósito familiarizar a los estudiantes con los diferentes géneros literarios producidos en Hispanoamérica durante los siglos XX y XXI. Se leerán a los novelistas, cuentistas, y ensayistas más famosos del período, unos de los cuales son Mario Vargas Llosa, ganador del Premio Nobel en Literatura de 2010, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, y Rosario Castellanos. También se leerán a varios poetas muy conocidos. El curso —tanto como la literatura de esta época— pone hincapié en la cuestión de identidad —nacional, cultural, sexual, e intelectual—, la interacción entre el destino personal y la trayectoria histórica, el papel de la literatura y del escritor, y la relación entre el poder y el lenguaje.
La nota final se calcula de acuerdo con la fórmula siguiente:
Exámenes (2)........................................................................... 30%
Trabajos escritos (2)................................................................. 40%
Presentación oral...................................................................... 10%
Participación diaria, tareas, y examencitos no-anunciados....... 20%
SPAN 239: Development of the Novel (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 104
Andres.Zamora@vanderbilt.edu
The history of the Spanish and Latin American Novel up to 1900 is full of perplexities and paradoxes. From 1550 to 1650, roughly, the modern Western novel was born in Spain basically through a new narrative genre, the Picaresque, and a prodigious single work: Don Quijote. In the meantime, books of narrative prose were prohibited in the Spanish Colonies of the New World. But in Europe the Picaresque novel and Cervantes' book did not find any constraints and they were widely read in the original or in translation. The Spanish texts sparked a literary revolution in the Continent and in England, working as the omnipresent bases and models of the great development of the novel, especially during the eighteenth century. Ironically, by that time Spain, that had started everything, was hardly producing any novels at all. In its turn, Latin America went on in its enforced novelistic silence. But in the nineteenth century the situation changed again. The independence movement in Latin America was accompanied or followed by a flourishing of novels, many of them struggling to establish a new national identity. Meanwhile the novel was making a return in the old metropolis, in Spain. The genre that had been exported to Europe 200 years before was coming back translated from foreign languages and in new forms, and appealing to a wider and wider reading public, which was now massively incorporating the new middle classes and women. The Spanish writers imitated the European models and rediscovered their novelistic tradition through them. By the 1870s the novel was unequivocally the most important genre in the country. However, Europe was not paying any attention this time. Spain had become too small, poor and peripheral a country. The Spanish novels, despite their many strengths, never made it to the European canon. The class will explore this novelistic journey by reading Lazarillo de Tormes, the anonymous romance El abencerraje, fragments of Don Quijote by Cervantes, a "novella" by María de Zayas, Sab by the Transatlantic Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Tormento by Benito Pérez Galdós.
SPAN 244: Afro-Hispanic Literature (Major: Literature; AXLE: P)
TR 11:00-12:15 Calhoun 117
William.Luis@vanderbilt.edu
The African presence in Spanish America represents an important and indispensable part of this region's history. However, people of African descent contribute to a different interpretation of the same history, one that is written not from a dominant but a marginal perspective. Afro-Hispanic literature can be traced to the early nineteenth century, when Cuban antislavery writers wrote about slavery. In the twentieth century authors continued to write about slaves and the lives of other blacks. In this course we will study Afro-Hispanic literature, from its inception to the present, written in countries like Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama, and Peru. We will read works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and focus on the antislavery narrative, Negrismo and Afro-Caribbean poetry, Afro-Cuban religions (Santería), and blacks in films. Some of the readings may include Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab, Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo, Miguel Barnet's Biografía de un cimarrón, Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas, Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores, and Quince Duncan's Los cuatro espejos.
SPAN 294-01: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (Major: Elective; No AXLE credit)
Topic: Jungle Narratives
MWF 12:10-1:00 Furman 007
Jose.Cardenas-Bunsen@Vanderbilt.edu
This course examines narratives about journeys to the Latin American jungle in poetry, fiction, anthropology, and the visual arts. Particular focus is placed on their relation to imperialism and their connection to nature, the law, and issues of identity. Readings by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Narrative; Juan León Mera, Cumandá; Rómulo Gallegos, Canaima; José Eustasio Rivera, The Vortex; Lydia Cabrera, Cuentos negros; Borges, The Ethnographer; Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps; Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller, and others.
SPAN 294-02: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (Major: Elective; No AXLE credit)
Topic: Modern Latin American Poetry
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
This course, conducted in Spanish, focuses on the development of poetry in Spanish America and Brazil during the twentieth century. The course covers all the major poets and movements, including both Spanish American Modernismo and Brazilian Modernismo. The course begins with a discussion of poetry as a genre and examines its distinguishing characteristics and features. As part of this exercise, the students will be writing, and discussing, their own poetry. The final grade is based on oral presentations, on short papers, and on a longer final paper. The importance of grammar and pronunciation are stressed as well as the quality of the critical commentary offered.
Note: Students who do all written work in Portuguese may apply with the DUS for a variance to count this course for Portuguese.
PORTUGUESE
Spanish Majors may take Portuguese 102 (a beginning course designed for Spanish speakers, offered every semester) as an elective in the Spanish major (but not the minor).
PORT 102: Intensive Elementary Portuguese (Elective in Spanish Major; AXLE: INT)
01 MTRF 11:10-12:00 Wilson 127
02 MTRF 12:10-1:00 Buttrick 301
An accelerated introduction to reading, writing, speaking and listening. Emphasis on practical usage. Open to students with prior study of another Romance language or by permission of instructor. NOTE: May be counted as 3 hours of elective toward the Spanish major. [4 hours]
PORT 200: Intermediate Portuguese (AXLE: INT)
MWF 10:10-11:00 Wilson 121
Emanuelle.Oliveira@Vanderbilt.edu
Intermediate Portuguese 200 is a course offering for students who have taken Portuguese 100B, 102 or have acquired Portuguese background elsewhere and wish to continue studying the language. The course is designed to offer a review of grammar through the use of music and other cultural elements (film, television programs, web resources, etc).
PORT 203: Brazilian Pop Culture (AXLE: INT)
MWF 12:10-1:00 Calhoun 204
Emanuelle.Oliveira@Vanderbilt.edu
Portuguese through Pop Culture is a content-based course with emphasis on Brazilian Pop Culture as a tool for acquiring advanced vocabulary, training conversational skills, and developing writing proficiency. This course seeks to explore various aspects of Brazilian culture while practicing advanced level grammar topics, discussing the readings, and engaging in the process of writing.
PORT 225: Brazilian Cutlure through Native Materials (AXLE: P)
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 325
Marcio.Bahia@Vanderbilt.edu
In this course we will have a historical overview of Brazilian cultural production through the analysis of objects as diverse as sitcoms, soap operas, movies and songs. It will be divided into four main segments: music, cinema, TV and sports. Students will study Brazilian music from the birth of Bossa Nova (1950s) and MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, 1960s) to contemporary musical phenomena such as tecnobrega, funk carioca and sertanejo universitário. We will discuss the development of Brazilian cinema from the Cinema Novo in the 1960s to the retomada in the mid-1990s. In the TV section, we will examine the impact of telenovelas and the role of the mighty Rede Globo in Brazilian society. Finally, beyond the insurmountable importance of soccer, we will also study the development of volleyball as today's second most popular sport in Brazil.
PORT 294-01: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature or Civilization (No AXLE credit)
Topic: Machado, Clarice, and Pessoa
TR 1:10-2:25 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
This course concentrates on three of the Portuguese language's greatest writers, the Brazilians Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector, and the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, often hailed as the last of the great European modernists. The texts we will read are the following: Machado de Assis: O Alienista, Esau e Jaco, and Memorial de Aires, plus selected works from his theater and poetry; Clarice Lispector: A Paixão Segundo G. H., A Via Crucis do Corpo, and Agua Viva (the text that, in French translation, provided Helene Cixous with the prototype for her very influential theory of "l'écriture feminine"); and, from Pessoa, poems in his own voice as well as poems in the voices of his famous heteronyms. Will count as an advanced literature course in the Spanish and Portuguese Major or the Portuguese minor.
PORT 294-02: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature or Civilization (No AXLE credit) See SPAN 294-02
Topic: Modern Latin American Poetry
TR 11:00-12:15 Furman 330
Earl.E.Fitz@Vanderbilt.edu
Portuguese students should sign up for this course under Span 294-02 (see description under SPAN). If all written work is presented in Portuguese, they may request a variance from the DUS to count if as a Portuguese course.
Senior Majors may, with permission of the instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, take a graduate level course. Registration must be handled separately through the Graduate School.
SPAN 303: The Art of Research and Grant Proposal Writing
R 3:10-5:30 Furman 319
Susan.Berk-Seligson@vanderbilt.edu
This course will be conducted in workshop format. It is designed to help graduate students write grant proposals for university-wide competitions for research funds, but will cover the area of grantspersonship more generally. The approach to the course will be to focus on each student's own research project. Students will draft and submit for collective discussion different components of their proposals, leading up to the term project, namely grant proposals that are ready for submission to external funding agencies. The course is useful for students planning to apply both for internal University funding (e.g., Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award Program, Penn Warren Humanities Center, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) summer travel awards [FLAS, Tinker, Simon Collier], and external fellowships and grants (e.g., Fulbright, Fulbright-Hayes, National Endowment for the Humanities). For those planning to enter the academic job market, the course will prepare them for internal faculty and external grant competitions once they are professors in the tenure-track.
In addition, the course will cover topics such as how to prepare manuscripts for submission to journals, how to write abstracts for consideration by conference organizing committees, and how to prepare for entry into the academic job market.
SPAN/PORT 310: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Also listed as Portuguese 310)
M 3:10-5:40 Furman 109
Virginia.M.Scott@Vanderbilt.edu
Principles and practices of teaching a second language, with concentration on recent interactive and communicative models of foreign language instruction. Goals of the course are 1) to introduce principles of Second Language Acquisition and learning, 2) to critically read relevant literature in the area(s), and 3) to develop FL instructor's awareness through reflective and critical thinking. Classroom observations, journal writing, development of materials, and a small action research project are expected. Required of all entering teaching assistants.
SPAN 343: Early Modern Spanish Drama
Topic: The Comedia and Beyond
T 3:10-5:30 Wilson 127
Edward.H.Friedman@Vanderbilt.edu
The course will begin with the frustrated but talented dramatist Miguel de Cervantes, will focus on Lope de Vega and the development of the comedia nueva, and will consider representative works of the neoclassical and Romantic periods. Emphasis will be on reading and discussion of individual plays, a consideration of their multiple contexts, and a survey of dramatic theory from classical antiquity to the present, including performance theory.
Texts will include:
Miguel de Cervantes, La Numancia, "El retablo de las maravillas"
Lope de Vega, "Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo," El caballero de Olmedo, Fuenteovejuna, La dama boba, El castigo sin venganza
Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, El médico de su honra, La vida es sueño
María de Zayas, La traición en la amistad
Ana Caro, Valor, agravio y mujer
Leandro Fernández de Moratín, El sí de las niñas
Ángel Saavedra, Duque de Rivas, Don Álvaro, o la fuerza del sino
José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio
Selected criticism
There will be a reading assignment and a short written exercise for each week. Evaluation will be based on the exercises and class participation (70%) and a final paper of ten to twelve pages (30%). The class will be given in Spanish. The final paper may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
SPAN 352: Issues in Hispanic Cinema
Topic: Transatlantic Voyages
R 3:10-5:30 Wilson 127
Andres.Zamora@Vanderbilt.edu
A study of the pervasiveness of transatlantic travels in contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema and its possible connection with those primordial historical expeditions that fated the destinies and the profiles of the two sides of the Ocean. A tentative list of movies to examine includes "Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto" (Díaz Yanes), "El cuarteto de la Habana" (Fernando Colomo), "Amores perros" (González Iñárritu), "Y tu mamá también" (Cuarón), "Flores de otro mundo" (Bollain), "Princesas" (León de Aranoa), "La puta y la ballena" (Puenzo), "Plata Quemada" (Piñeyro), "Todo sobre mi madre" (Almodóvar), "Lugares comunes" (Aristarain), "La virgen de la lujuria" (Ripstein), "El espinazo del diablo" (Del Toro) y "Aunque estés lejos" (Tabío).
SPAN 375: Studies in Trans-Atlantic Literature
Topic: Poetry in the Era of Memory
M 4:10-6:30 Furman 319
Christina.Karageorgou@Vanderbilt.edu
The purpose of this seminar is to work on a highly debatable topic: lyric trends dealing with memory, oblivion, and social responsibility in modern Hispanic poetry. Moreover, the focus of the course is a dialog of temporal and spatial resonances that coverthe twentieth century and expand over the Atlantic to bridge the distance that separates Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Through pairs of poets such as Xavier Villaurrutia (Mexico) and Federico García Lorca (Spain), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) and Luis Cernuda (Spain), Susana Thénon (Argentina) and María Ángeles Pérez López (Spain), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay/Spain) and Noni Benegas (Argentina/Spain), we will examine ways of telling history beyond narration. The word history here means both historical events and social issues that galvanize the polis and its citizens. The theoretical basis of the course will be formed by reflections on art, poetry and society on behalf of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Paul Ricoeur.
Evaluation
Oral presentations on Ricoeur, Bloch, Benjamin, and AdornoA series of four interpretive essays, up to five pages each, on any four out of the eight poets and their works to be discussed throughout the course. Each essay is due the day we discuss the poet and her/his work in class (see reading schedule below).A final research/interpretation essay of up to 6000 words (without notes and bibliography), on any one of the eight poets included in the course.
All essays should be sent as attached Word documents to my email before class.
SPAN 389: Special Topics in Spanish American Literature
Topic: Narratives of Nation Building
W 3:10-5:30 Furman 319
Ruth.Hill@Vanderbilt.edu
This course examines U.S. and Latin American nationalisms and literatures (primarily prose from the long-19th century) from the perspective of Hemispheric American Studies. Our secondary readings shall encompass theoretical piece from this field as well as from Latin American Studies. Primary texts may include: A. Bello, Silvas americanas; J. J. Fernández de Lizardi, La Quijotita y su prima; S. Morton, Crania Americana (selections); W. H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru (selections), History of the Conquest of Mexico (selections); W. W. Brown, Clotel, or The President's Daughter; D. F. Sarmiento, "Espíritu y condiciones de la Historia en América," "North and South America," Vida de Abrán Lincoln (introd.); M. Peabody Mann, Juanita; J. E. Rodó, Ariel; George Schuyler, Black No More.