Course
 HUSL
6373:
The
Latin
American
Novel


Professor
 Charles
Hatfield


 Term
 Spring
2011

Meetings
 T
10:00
a.m.
‐
12:45
p.m.



Contact
Information



Prof.
Charles
Hatfield

Phone:

 (972)
883‐2780

E‐mail:
 charles.hatfield@utdallas.edu

Office:
 JO
5.104

Hours:
 T
1:00‐2:00
p.m.





Course
Description



The
 “dictator
 and
 the
 dictator‐book,”
 Roberto
 González
 Echevarría
 once
 wrote,
 is

the
“most
clearly
indigenous
thematic
tradition
in
Latin
American
literature.”

In
this

seminar,
we
will
trace
the
origins
and
explore
the
ideological
underpinnings
of
that

tradition.
 
 In
 particular,
 we
 will
 focus
 on
 the
 ways
 in
 which
 dictator
 novels
 have

functioned
as
privileged
sites
for
thinking
not
only
about
power
and
government
in

Latin
America,
but
also
about
literature
and
representation
itself.







Grades



Final
grades
for
this
seminar
will
be
assigned
based
on
the
following
work:




 
 
 Seminar
Presentation

 
 40%


 
 
 Final
Paper
 
 
 
 50%


 
 
 Participation
 
 
 
 10%





Required
Texts
(Off
Campus
Books)



Asturias,
Miguel
Angel.

The
President.

Trans.
Frances
Partridge.

Prospect
Heights,


IL:
Waveland,
1997.

978‐0881339512



Eloy
Martínez,
Tomás.

The
Perón
Novel.

Trans.
Helen
Lane.

New
York:
Vintage,


1998.

978‐0679768012



Roa
Bastos,
Augusto.

I,
the
Supreme.

Trans.
Helen
Lane.

Normal,
IL:
Dalkey,
2000.

978‐1564782472




1
García
Márquez,
Gabriel.

The
Autumn
of
the
Patriarch.

Trans.
Gregory
Rabassa.



New
York:
Harper,
2006.

978‐0060882860



Mármol,
José.

Amalia.

Trans.
Helen
Lane.

Oxford:
Oxford
UP,
2001.

978‐0195122770



Ramírez,
Sergio.

Margarita,
How
Beautiful
the
Sea.

Trans.
Michael
Miller.



Willimantic,
CT:
Curbstone,
2007.

978‐1931896412



Sarmiento,
Domingo
Faustino.

Facundo.

Trans.
Kathleen
Ross.

Berkeley:
U
of


California
P,
2004.

978‐0520239807







Valenzuela,
Luisa.

The
Lizard's
Tail.

Trans.
Gregory
Rabassa.

London:
Serpent's


Tail,
1991.

978‐1852421120



Vargas
Llosa,
Mario.

Conversation
in
the
Cathedral.

Trans.
Gregory
Rabassa.

New


York:
Harper,
2005.

978‐0060732806



‐‐‐.

The
Feast
of
the
Goat.

Trans.
Edith
Grossman.

New
York:
Picador,
2002.

978‐0312420277





Library
Reserves



Agosín,
Marjorie.

“Inhabitants
of
Decayed
Palaces:
The
Dictator
in
the
Latin


American
Novel.”

Human
Rights
Quarterly
12.2
(1990):
328‐335.



Barrueto,
Jorge
J.

“A
Latin
American
Indian
Re‐Reads
the
Canon:
Postcolonial


Mimicry
in
El
Señor
Presidente.”
Hispanic
Review
72.3
(2004):
339‐356.




Civantos,
Christina.

“Exile
Inside
(and)
Out:
Woman,
Nation,
and
the
Exiled


Intellectual
in
Jose
Marmol's
Amalia."

Latin
American
Literary
Review
30.59

(2002):
55‐78.



Derby,
Lauren.

The
Dictator’s
Seduction:
Politics
and
the
Popular
Imagination
in
the


Era
of
Trujillo.

Durham:
Duke
UP,
2009.



Ellis,
Keith.

“Poder
sin
responsabilidad:
las
palabras
en
Yo
el
Supremo.”

Casa
de
las


Américas
228
(2002):
38‐50.



Franco,
Jean.

“El
pasquín
y
los
diálogos
de
los
muertos:
Discursos
diacrónicos
en
Yo


el
Supremo.”

Augusto
Roa
Bastos
y
la
producción
Americana.

Ed.
Saúl


Sosnowski.

Buenos
Aires:
La
Flor,
1986.

181‐196.




2
González,
Eduardo.

The
Monstered
Self.

Durham:
Duke
UP,
1992.



González
Echevarría,
Roberto.

“The
Dictatorship
of
Rhetoric/the
Rhetoric
of


Dictatorship:
Carpentier,
Garcia
Marquez,
and
Roa
Bastos.”
Latin
American


Research
Review
15.3
(1980):
205‐228.



‐‐‐,
and
Enrique
Pupo‐Walker,
eds.

The
Cambridge
History
of
Latin
American


Literature.
Vol.
2.

Cambridge:
Cambridge
UP,
1996.



Himelblau,
Jack.
“El
Señor
Presidente:
Antecedents,
Sources,
and
Reality.”

Hispanic


Review
41.1
(1973):
43‐78.



Kristal,
Efraín.

Temptation
of
the
Word:
The
Novels
of
Mario
Vargas
Llosa.

Nashville:


Vanderbilt
UP,
1999.



Labanyi,
Jo.

“Language
and
Power
in
The
Autumn
of
the
Patriarch.”

Gabriel
García


Márquez.

Ed.
Harold
Bloom.

New
York:
Chelsea
House,
2007.
145‐158.



Lifshey,
Adam.

“Indeterminacy
and
the
Subversive
in
Representations
of
the


Trujillato.”

Hispanic
Review
76.4
(2008):
435‐457.



Lindstrom,
Naomi.

Early
Spanish
American
Narrative.

Austin:
U
of
Texas
P,
2004.



Rama,
Angel.

The
Lettered
City.

Trans.
John
Charles
Chasteen.

Durham:
Duke
UP,


1996.



Shaw,
Donald.

A
Companion
to
Modern
Spanish
American
Fiction.

London:
Tamesis,


2002.



Shumway,
Nicolas.

The
Invention
of
Argentina.

Berkeley:
U
of
California
P,
1993.



Sommer,
Doris.

Foundational
Fictions.

Berkeley:
U
of
California
P,
1991.



Sorensen,
Diana.

Facundo
and
the
Construction
of
Argentina
Culture.

Austin:
U
of


Texas
P,
1996.



Williams,
Raymond
L.

“The
Autumn
of
the
Patriarch
(1975).”
Gabriel
García


Márquez.

Ed.
Harold
Bloom.

New
York:
Chelsea
House,
2007.

123‐144.



‐‐‐.

The
Twentieth­Century
Spanish
American
Novel.

Austin:
U
of
Texas
P,
2003.






3
Academic
Calendar



January
11
 Course
Introduction



January
18
 
 
 Sarmiento,
Facundo



January
25
 
 
 Mármol,
Amalia


 
 
 

February
1
 
 
 Asturias,
The
President



February
8
 Roa
Bastos,
I,
the
Supreme



February
15
 
 
 García
Márquez,
The
Autumn
of
the
Patriarch


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

February
22
 
 
 Valenzuela,
The
Lizard's
Tail



March
1
 Eloy
Martínez,
The
Perón
Novel


 

March
8
 Vargas
Llosa,
The
Feast
of
the
Goat



March
15
 **NO
CLASS
(Spring
Break)**



March
22
 Vargas
Llosa,
Conversation
in
the
Cathedral



March
29
 Ramírez,
Margarita,
How
Beautiful
the
Sea



April
5
 Research
Presentations



April
12
 
 
 Research
Presentations



April
19
 **NO
CLASS**



April
26
 Conclusions;
Course
Evaluations




April
29
 FINAL
PAPERS
DUE
by
5:00
p.m.




 
 

These
descriptions
and
timelines
are
subject
to
change
at
the
discretion
of
the

Professor.






University
policies
and
procedures
relevant
to
this
course
can
be
found
at:

http://go.utdallas.edu/syllabus‐policies.