The Companion to Hispanic StudiesRoutledge, 2014 M05 1 - 208 páginas What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West. This essential book provides all the necessary introductory information on the subject and will be especially useful for students who have already started courses in Spanish / Hispanic Studies, or who are considering doing so in the future. Written by a team of leading scholars each with established teaching experience this collection of short essays explores topics as diverse as the history of the Spanish language, Islamic Andalusia, race and class in the Spanish Golden Age, Catalan nationalism, the Madrid 'movida', Latin America cinema, tango in Argentina, Evita Per |
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What is Hispanic Studies? | 1 |
Language | 13 |
Medieval Spanish Studies | 32 |
Spain and Spanish America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | 50 |
Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | 68 |
Twentiethcentury Spain | 85 |
Catalan Galician Basque | 101 |
Mexico Central America the Caribbean and the Andes | 112 |
The Southern Cone | 129 |
Spanish and Latin American cinema | 150 |
Beyond Hispanic Studies? Interdisciplinary approaches to Spain and Latin America | 164 |
Student comments | 182 |
Time chart | 189 |
Index | 193 |
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