Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Spanish Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-SPAD17-286E
- Title
- Latest trends in Latin American literature
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- es
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and responsible appreciation of the most influential trends, works and important antecedents of contemporary Spanish-American literature. They will learn the professionally accepted procedures for the reception of diverse Spanish-American texts and cultural phenomena and their diversity. A) Knowledge Students ● have at least C1 level, usable language skills, intercultural communicative competence. ● know the rules and registers of spoken and written Spanish, are able to use Spanish fluently, correctly, confidently, in the given context. ● know the characteristic intellectual and artistic trends, forms and works of contemporary Spanish American cultures, with special regard to Spanish American literature and its social aspects. ● know the sources of information that can be used in the learning of Hispanic literature, the possibilities of learning about them, textbooks, the basics of research methodology. B) Ability Students are ● able to use Spanish fluently, correctly, confidently, in the given context. ● able to read original literary texts in Spanish and analyze them with literary criticism. ● able to apply their knowledge correctly and contextually in the course of fluent use of the target language. ● able to summarize research results accurately and present individual creative textual analyzes in the form of oral presentations and written argumentative essays. C) Attitude Students ● strive to acquire new knowledge and skills. ● are committed to development through the use of available technologies, among other tools. ● consider it important to continuously improve his/her knowledge and skills. ● strive to continuously and individually develop their specialized professional and intercultural knowledge. ● consider it important to develop tolerance towards ethnicities and nationalities. ● are open to new phenomena and are able to critique these. D) Autonomy and responsibility Students ● are committed to intensive learning. ● perform learning-related tasks independently. ● take responsibility for their own work, development, achievements and failures. ● have a significant degree of independence in raising and elaborating comprehensive and special issues of their profession, in representing and justifying professional views.
- Course content
- The most important trends, phenomena, genres, authors and antecedents of contemporary Spanish-American literature (postboom, Roberto Bolaño, McOndo). Speculative fiction and the post-apocalyptic vision. Writings of the "body" (Bellatin, Gutiérrez). Microfiction (Shua). The genre of autofiction (Aira, Bellatin).
- Assessment method
- Written and oral exam. Grading 1-5.
- Bibliography
- Bolaño, Roberto et alii (2004): Palabra de América. Barcelona: Seix Barral, Los tres mundos. Fabry, Geneviéve; Logie, Ilse; Decock, Pablo (eds.) (2010): Los imaginarios apocalípticos en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea. Bern: Peter Lang. González, José Carlos (2009): Tendencias de la narrativa mexicana actual. Madrid: Iberoamericana. Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca (2008): “Últimas tendencias y promociones”. En Trinidad Barrera (coord.): Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Tomo III. Siglo XX. Madrid: Cátedra, 167-180. Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca (2010): “Última narrativa hispanoamericana (de 1995 a nuestros días). En Gianfranco Zicarelli (coord.): Cuatro paisajes. Roma, Instituto Cervantes, 87-116. Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca; Pérez López, María Ángeles; Esteban, Ángel (eds.) (2014): Literatura más allá de la nación. De lo centrípeto y lo centrífugo en la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana. Shaw, Donald L. (1992): Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana. Boom, Postboom, Postmodernismo. Madrid: Cátedra. Further required reading is part of every course syllabus.