Nacions, Identitats i Fronteres (20160)
Titulació/estudi: Grau en Humanitats
Curs: 3r
Trimestre: 2n
Nombre de crèdits ECTS: 5 crèdits
Hores dedicació estudiant:
Llengua o llengües de la docència: Anglès
Professorat: Pere Gifra Adroher/Maria Antònia Oliver Rotger
1. Presentació de l'assignatura o descriptor
Estudi de les nacions, de les identitats i de les fronteres des del punt de vista de la seva realitat històrica i social, de la seva elaboració cultural i del seu rendiment simbòlic. Ens centrarem, tanmateix, en el cas de la construcció de la identitat nord-americana a través del mite de la frontera, tal com s'especifica en el següent paràgraf en anglès que els estudiants tenen al web de l'assignatura:
This course will explore the literary representation of the American frontier from the colonial period to the present. Bearing in mind that the frontier still remains one of the most powerful myths in the collective consciousness of many Americans, this course will examine how literature has contributed, on the one hand, to the emergence and prevalence of this myth, and, on the other hand, to its critique. The texts discussed will encompass some of the recurrent topics in frontier literature: the East-West dichotomy, the representation of Native Americans and women on the frontier, the myth of the cowboy, frontier violence and individualism, the ideological uses of the American landscape, and the challenges to the frontier myth in the literature by women, Native Americans and Chicanos. After analyzing several representative works (including the films "The Searchers" and "Brokeback Mountain"), by the end of the course students will be able to identify the main traits associated with this type of literature, to notice the distinction between the myth and reality of frontier life, and to evaluate its ongoing significance in contemporary America and, more specifically, how it has become such an important element for building and redefining an American identity.
2. Competències a assolir
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Competències generals |
Competències específiques |
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1. Reflexionar sobre el valor simbòlic de les fronteres, tant en el present com en el passat, a l'hora de construir identitats nacionals.
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1. Comprendre la importancia de la frontera com a fet simbòlic per a la construcció de la identitat nord-americana. |
3. Continguts
UNIT 1. One or Many? Theorizing and Defining the American Frontier
UNIT 2. Captives, Indians, Settlers: Early American Frontier Literature
UNIT 3. Poetry and the Discourse of Westward Expansion
UNIT 4. On the Trail: Travel Writing and the Frontier Experience
UNIT 5. Folk Heroes: the Frontier and Popular Literature
UNIT 6. The Hollywood Frontier: the Western
UNIT 7. Realism, Naturalism, and the Closing of the Frontier
UNIT 8. The Female Experience of the Frontier in American Literature
UNIT 9. Challenging the Frontier: Native American Literature
UNIT 10: The Paradigm of the Borderlands and Chicano/a Literature
UNIT 11. Re-imagining Frontier Masculinity: Literature and the "new" Western.
4. Avaluació
Els estudiants han de redactar dos treballs en anglès per a aquesta assignatura, un per a cada professor, i cadascun d'aquests treballs equivadrà a un 15% de la nota final. El tema i les instruccions per a cada treball es donaran a classe i/o s'anunciaran a l'aula global durant el trimestre. També hi haurà un examen final obligatori per a tothom (equivalent al 60% de la nota final) i una nota de participació (equivalent al 10% de la nota final).
5. Bibliografia i recursos didàctics
5.1. Bibliografia bàsica
Dossier de textos de l'assignatura
Willa Cather, My Antonia (Virago, 2002)
5.2. Bibliografia complementària
Arteaga, Alfred. Another Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987.
Bannon, John Francis. The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.
Bartlett, Richard. The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890. New York: Oxford UP, l974.
Barnett, Louise K. The Ignoble Savage: American Literary Racism, 1790-1890. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Benito, Jesús and Ana Manzanas. Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands. Amsterdam & New York, 2002.
Billington, Ray Allen. The Frontier and American Culture. Berkeley: California Library Association, 1965.
- - - . America's Frontier Heritage. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
- - - . The Westward Movement in the United States. New York: Van Nostrand, 1959.
- - - and Martin Ridge. Westward Expansion : a History of the American Frontier. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
Blanding, Paul J., Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski (eds.) The Frontier Experience: a Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1984.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
Bradbury, Malcolm, and H. Temperley. Introduction to American Studies. New York: Longman, 1981.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola. We Fed them Cactus (1954). Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Calderón, Héctor, and José David Saldívar, eds. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies on Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1991.
Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
- - - . The Six-Gun Mystique. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1971.
Comer, Krista. Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
- - - , George Miles and Jay Gitlin (eds.) Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. New York: Norton, 1992.
Daehnke, Joel. In the Work of their Hands is their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930. Athens: Ohio UP, 2004.
Edna Acosta-Belen and Carlos E. Santiago, "Merging Borders: The Remapping of America". Latino Review of Books, Vol. 1 No.1 Spring 1995.
Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. New Haven: Yale UP, l979.
Fender, Stephen. Plotting The Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.
Folsom, James K. The American Western Novel. New Haven: College & University Press, 1966.
- - - (ed.) The Western: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1979.
Fox, Claire. The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Fussell, Edwin S. Frontier: American Literature and the American West. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965.
Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte. The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
González, Gilbert G. Culture of Empire. American Writers, Mexico & Mexican Immigrants.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Grossman, James R. (ed.). The Frontier in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Hall, Roger A. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.
Hazard, Lucy L. The Frontier in American Literature. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1941.
Heyne, Eric (ed.). Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier. Boston: Twayne, 1992.
Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
- - - , and Seymour Lipset (eds.) Turner and the Sociology of the Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 1968.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Frontier Women: "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880. New York: Hill & Wang, l997.
Kaplan, Amy, and Donald E. Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993.
Kittredge, William (ed.). The Portable Western Reader. New York: Viking, 1997.
Klein, Kerwin Lee. Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Klose, Nelson. A Concise Study Guide to the American Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
Kolodny: Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
- - - , The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Kowalewski, Michael. Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Lewis, Nathaniel. Unsettling the Literary West. Authenticity and Authorship. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.
Limón, José. American Encounters. Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
Lyon, Thomas L. (ed.). The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature. Oxford UP, 1999.
Lyons, Greg (ed.) Literature of the American West. A Cultural Approach. New York: Longman, 2003.
McWilliams, Carey. North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.
Miller, Perry. Errand Into the Wilderness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.
Milner, Clyde A., Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss (eds.). The Oxford History of the American West. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Milton, John R. The Novel of the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Miyakawa, T. Scott, Protestants and Pioneers: Individualism and Conformity on the American Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l964.
Mogen, David, Mark Busby, and Paul Bryant (eds.). The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1989.
- - -, Scott P. and Joanne B. Karpinski (eds.) Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Rutherford, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993.
Nash, Roderick F. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
Paredes, Américo. "With His Pistol in His Hand:" A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1958.
---. The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1994.
Pilkington, William T (ed.). Critical Essays on the Western American Novel, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.
Proulx, Annie. Close Range: Wyoming Stories. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Proulx, Annie, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay. London, New York, Toronto and Sidney: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Ridge, Martin. America's Frontier Story: A Documentary History of Westward Expansion. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winton, l980.
Robinson, Cecil. With the Ears of Strangers: The Mexican in American Literature. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1963.
Ronda, James P. Revealing America: Image and Imagination in the Exploration of North America. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1996.
Saldívar, José David. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Berkeley: California UP, 1997.
Saldívar, Ramón. Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Seelye, John (ed.) Stories of the Old West. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
Sequeira, Isaac, and R. S. Sharma (eds.). Closing of the American Frontier: A Centennial Retrospect, 1890-1990. Hyderabad, India : American Studies Research Centre, 1994.
Simonson, Harold P. Beyond the frontier: writers, Western regionalism, and a sense of place. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1989.
Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration through Violence. The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, l973.
- - - . The Fatal Environment: the Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
- - - . Gunfighter Nation. The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
Smith, Carlton. Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: the American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1950.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Spanos, William V. "American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con-Men". Boundary 2, 34 (2007): 35-66.
Stevens, J. David. The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction. Athens, Ohio UP, 2002.
Sullivan, Tom R. Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas. Bowling Green: Popular Press, 1990.
Taylor, George R. The Turner Thesis Concerning the Role of the Frontier in American History. Boston: Heath, 1956.
Taylor, J. Golden (ed.). The Literature of the American West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
Tompkins, Jane. West of Everything. The Inner Life of Westerns. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. Malabar, Florida: Krieger, 1985.
- - - . La frontera en la historia americana. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, 1976.
- - - , "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Ed. by Harold P. Simonson. New York: Ungar, 1963.
Von Frank, Albert J. The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, l985.
Walsh, Margaret. The American Frontier Revisited. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981.
Watts, Edward, and David Rachels (eds.). The First West: Writing from the American Frontier, 1776-1860. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
Westfahl, Gary. Space and Beyond: the Frontier Theme in Science Fiction. Westport, Greenwood, 2000.
White, Richard. A New History of the American West. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
------- , Rivers of Empire, Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, 1985.
Wright, Louis B. Culture on the Moving Frontier. Bloomington: Harper, l955.
Wright, Will. Six-Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Wrobel, David M. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
5.3. Recursos didàctics
Web amb recursos de l'asssignatura: http://www.upf.edu/materials/fhuma/frontier/
6. Metodologia (optatiu)
Aquesta assignatura s'imparteix en anglès i segueix una metodologia comunicativa que fa que es posi èmfasi en la comprensió lectora, la comprensió auditiva i la producció escrita dels estudiants. És per aquest motiu que és imprescindible que els estudiants matriculats tinguin un bon domini de la llengua anglesa i hagin assolit com a mínim el nivell B1 en el Marc Europeu Comú de Referència per a les Llengües. També és molt important que els estudiants preparin la lectura dels textos amb prou antelació, atesa la complexitat i extensió que de vegades poden tenir. L'aproximació a la matèria, tot i basar-se essencialment en textos, serà transversal i multidisciplinar, amb incursions en els àmbits del cinema i la pintura.
7. Programació d'activitats
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NACIONS, IDENTITATS I FRONTERES (20160), GRUP 1 |
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Dijous |
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| 10/01 - 14/01 | Introduction. Political rhetoric and definitions of the Frontier |
Discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" and of Richard Slotkin's views on the frontier myth |
| 17/01 - 21/01 | The construction of the frontier in the Puritan period: "the errand into the wilderness" | Analysis of Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative |
| 24/01 - 28/01 | Frontier and nation-building during the early Republic: Crevecoeur's Letters and poetry by Philip Freneau | The Romantic construction of the frontier: James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans |
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Poetry, Western expansionism and Manifest Destiny: poetry by Walt Whitman and William Cullen Bryant. |
Frontier Humour and Frontier Travel: analysis of several chapters from Mark Twain's Roughing It |
| 07/02 - 11/02 | The literary western and the symbolic construction of the frontier: analysis of Stephen Crane's short story "The Bride Came to Yellow Sky" | The Hollywood Western and the modern recasting of the American Frontier: John Ford's The Searchers |
| 14/02 - 28/02 | Women and the Frontier: My Ántonia (book I) | Women and the Frontier: My Ántonia (books II-V) |
| 21/02 - 25/02 | Women and the Frontier: My Ántonia (wrap-up session) | Challenging the Frontier: new concepts and theories (essays by Kolodny and other critics). |
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28/02 - 04/03 |
Native Americans and the Frontier: Leslie M. Silko's "A Geronimo Story" and Louise Erdrich's "Dear John Wayne" | Guest lecturer (to be announced; may be subject to change) |
| 07/03 - 11/03 |
New Paradigms: Essays by Banner, Benito and Manzanas; ; Gloria Anzaldúa on the Borderlands |
Mexican-American Literature and the Frontera: the corrido; Américo Paredes, With His Pistol in his Hand; Américo Paredes, The Gringo; Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, We Fed them Cactus |
| 14/03 - 18/03 |
New views of the frontier: Annie Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain" |
Discussion of Ang Lee's film "Brokeback Mountain |
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