Instructor: Aldopho Campoy-Cubillo
Course Time: WF 3:30-5:17
General Education: Western Civilization
Term: Winter 2013

DESCRIPTION

This course aims to analyze the articulation and evolution of concepts such as justice, legal and natural rights, citizenship, and civil rights as exemplified by literary representations of the Spanish Civil War. We will compare and contrast representations by Spanish and Western writers in an effort to better understand the geopolitical interests as well as the ideological discourses at play in the conceptualization of the conflict as the Good Fight. The course will explore the birth and rise to power of Spanish fascism from opposite perspectives in the works of Francisco Franco and Max Aub. We will also contrast the representation of the Spanish Civil War as the Good Fight in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, George Orwell, and Ramo?n J. Sender while exploring Francoist representations of the war in the work of Jose? Mari?a Gironella. We will also consider the larger historical context of the Spanish Civil War in Jorge Sempru?n's autobiographical account of his escape from Francoist Spain and later imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald.

TEXTS

• Aub, Max,. Field of Honor. Trans. Gerald Martin London: Verso Books, 2009. Print.
• Franco, Francisco. Francisco Franco's Moroccan War Diary 1920-1922. Trans. Paul Southern. Bromley, Kent: Galago Books, 2007. Print.
• Gironella, Jose? M. The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War : a Novel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. Print.
• Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bells Toll. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1940. Print.
• Hughes, Langston. I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. Print.
• Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. Print.
• Sender, Ramo?n J. Requiem for a Spanish Peasant. Trans. Graham Whittaker. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2007. Print.
• Sempru?n, Jorge. The Long Voyage. Trans. Richard Seaver. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2005. Print.

ACTIVITIES
Students will be required to participate in seminar discussions, complete a series of reading journal entries, prepare presentations on historical data pertaining to the Spanish Civil War, and write a final essay on one of the literary works covered in class.