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| | Courses - Spanish Section - Swarthmore College, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures |
 | | Borges was born at the end of the nineteenth century, on August 24, 1899, in the heart of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he died on June 14, 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland. |
 | | We will study the work of several Spanish authors, film directors, and intellectuals of the last decades of the 20th century who try to recover the silenced voices of the past in an effort to contest the “rhetoric of amnesia,” so persistent in the early transition to democracy in Spain. |
 | | Among the topics to be explored and discussed are the multifaceted formation of a cultural, religious, social, and national identity in varied works of literature and history (including the complex definitions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims; newly converted Christians from Judaism and Islam, known as conversos; Amerindians, Mestizos, and Creoles). |
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