READING LIST AND TEXTS

Here you will find all the texts that we will be working with during the semester. The materials linked here are FREE and OPEN ACCESS: download and borrow the books as you need!

***

FIRST HALF OF THE SEMESTER
FROM THE WAR TO THE “TRANSICIÓN” – 1936 – 1980s

  1. Pablo Picasso – Guernica (1937) (Painting)
  2. Federico García Lorca – Selection from Poet in New York (1940) (Poetry)
  3. Federico García Lorca – The House of Bernarda Alba (1945) (Theater)
  4. and Mario Camus – The House of Bernarda Alba (1985) (Film)
  5. Carmen Laforet – Nothing (1945) (Novel)
  6. Merce Rodoreda – The Time of the Doves (1962) (Novel) + other stories (Short stories)
  7. The “Novísimos” – Pere Gimferrer – Selection from Burning Sea (1966) (Poetry
  8. Miguel Delibes – Five Hours with Mario (1966) (Novel
  9. Jose Luis CuerdaButterfly’s Tongue (1999) (Film)
  10. Victor Erice – The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) (Film
  11. La Movida Madrileña. Photographs from the 80s by Miguel Trillo, Pablo Pérez Minguez, Alberto García-Alix and Ouka Leele (Photography

SECOND HALF OF THE SEMESTER
NEW SPANISH IDENTITY AND CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTATION – 1980s – 2000

  1. Bernardo Atxaga – Selection from Obabakoak (1988) (Novel/short stories)
  2. and Montxo Armendáriz – Obaba (2005) (Film
  3.  Juan Mayorga – The Scorched Garden (1997) (Theater
  4. Chantal Maillard – Killing Plato (2004) (Poetry)
  5. (Queer) Flamenco (Music and performance) (artists TBD) 
  6. La Phármaco/Luz Arcas (Dance)
  7. Pedro Almodovar – All About My Mother (1999) (Film
  8. and The Skin I Live in (2011) (Film

*the links on this list will be added and updated ongoing. Not open access materials will be uploaded to a password safe folder.