SPA 494B HISPANIC ORIENTALISM

The diverse images that have come to be associated with the idea of the Orient and Orientalism in Spanish and Spanish American literatures. Through detailed reading of some of the principal texts of the three Spanish cultural traditions (Christian, Arab and Jewish), we will examine the origin and proliferation of these images in Hispanic literary discourse. The incorporation of the metaphors of the Orient into subsequent literature from the medieval period to the present, along with their expression and impact, will also be examined.