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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | SPANB349001 |
| Course Title | Spanish Environmental Imagin |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Penalba,Neus |
| Times and Days | MW 10:10am-11:30am
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2435 How do contemporary writers, artists, and filmmakers engage aesthetically with a damaged national landscape? What are the ongoing effects, within a climate change scenario, of the Franco regime's fascist policies, such as intensive eucalyptus plantations and the construction of hydraulic structures that dammed half of the river flows, making Spain the first country in Europe in terms of reservoirs? Why doesn't the 1978 democratic Constitution include the word "landscape"? What metaphors have been used to both represent, reshape, and caricaturize, from an urban perspective, the rural communities in Spain including both the national rural bumpkin and the migrant laborers? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this course, which focuses on rural migrations, class and race conflicts, fascist and capitalistic extractivism, historical memory, and our current socio-ecological crisis. Throughout films, novels, and land art (by Spanish, Galician, Catalan and Basque authors) we will examine the historical continuities and discontinuities of environmental cultures in Spain from the end of the 19th century, when the rural exodus began, to the present day when the transformation of rural areas into renewable energy hubs exacerbates Spains urban-rural divide. Prerequisite: one SPAN 200-level course. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach, Writing Attentive; Enrollment Cap: 12. If course exceeds the enrollment cap, the lottery criteria will be Majors by class, then Minors by class. |
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