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Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular) I

Session 1 - Saturday 8:15-9:45am
Henry Hall 225
Presiding Officer: 
Juan M. Godoy
  1. "¡Mi palacio ha sido profanado!": Homosexual Panic in Rosalía de Castro’s El caballero de las botas azules. Mark Harpring, University of Puget Sound

    This study explores Castro's novel in relation to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theories on the male homosocial continuum. I argue that the Duque's preence brings on a state of homosexual panic for the bachelor Albuerniga, forcing him to negotiate his way along the male homosocial continuum towards heterosexuality.

  2. Tradition and Originality in Nazarín and Halma. Daniel Brown, Western Illinois University

    In Galdós's Halma, a "Spanish mystic tradition" is invoked to question the originality of Russian realism. This invention of an "organic" tradition is a defense against foreign influence, much in the same way that Galdós previously defended a "Spanish realist tradition" that predated French realism.

  3. El arte de adivinar de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Santiago Morales-Rivera, University of California, Irvine

    Analizo La muerte del Decano (1992) como una forma de representar la melancolía tantas veces denunciada en España al término de la Transición y de desafiar la heurística posdictatorial haciendo hincapié en la complicidad del género negro con la estética grotesca.

  4. Immigración norteafricana en el cine español: fricciones de identidad, integración y poder en Poniente (2002), de Chus Gutierrez. Marianela Rivera, Stenden University

    This analysis studies how North African immigration is portrayed in contemporary Spanish cinema, specifically in Poniente (2002). This study explores the interaction between Spaniards and immigrants and how this affect immigrants’ social and economic integration.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed