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Module aims

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

How has the Spanish language travelled around the world and what happens when it coexists with other languages? How do writers exploit language to explore identity, and what happens when they work between two (or more!) languages? What skills do we need as readers to interpret the nuances of texts that travel between languages?
This module will equip you with an understanding of the cultural and sociolinguistic diversity of the Hispanic world, and a strong grounding in the literary and cultural analysis of texts that address this diversity

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate relevant factual knowledge of the cultural and sociolinguistic diversity of the Hispanic world
• Argue the relation between the cultural and sociolinguistic diversity of the Hispanic world and literary texts that address this diversity; evaluate literary expressions of cultural and linguistic diversity in the context of the cultural and sociolinguistic diversity of the Hispanic world
• Use knowledge acquired in lectures, seminars, and from prescribed reading as a basis for individual research

Indicative reading list

Bell, A. (2014) The guidebook to sociolinguistics. Chichester, West Sussex, United
Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=4434069.

Díaz-Campos, M. (ed.) (2011) The handbook of Hispanic sociolinguistics. Malden,
Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.

Díaz-Campos, M. (2014) Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica. Chichester, West
Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Etxebarria, M. (2002) La diversidad de lenguas en España. Madrid: Espasa.

Fishman, J. A. and García, O. (eds) (2011) The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York
City. 2nd ed. with a new foreword. 2002. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Available at:
https://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/search/C__S%20The%20Multilingual%20Apple%
3A%20Languages%20in%20New%20York%20City__Ff%3Afacetfields%3Atitle%3Atitle%3AT
itle%3A%3A__Orightresult__U__X0?lang=eng&suite=cobalt.

Geeslin, K. L. (ed.) (2018) The Cambridge handbook of Spanish linguistics. Cambridge,
United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3226998.

Holmes, J. and Wilson, N. (2017) An introduction to sociolinguistics. Fifth edition. London:
Routledge. Available at: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3011095.

Lipski, J. M. (2008) Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2928517.

Lugo Filippi, C. and Vega, A. L. (1981) Virgenes y martires: (cuentos). Rio Piedras, P.R.:
Antillana.

Mackenzie, I. (2001) A linguistic introduction to Spanish. Muenchen: Lincom Europa.

Mar-Molinero, C. (1997) The Spanish-speaking world: a practical introduction to
sociolinguistic issues. London: Routledge. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2882077.

Mar-Molinero, C. (2000) The politics of language in the Spanish-speaking world: from
colonisation to globalisation. London, England: Routledge.

Mar-Molinero, C. and Stewart, M. (eds) (2006) Globalization and language in the
Spanish-speaking world: macro and micro perspectives. Houndmills, Basingstoke,
Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3013407.

Mesthrie, R. et al. (2009) Introducing sociolinguistics. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2859729.

Paffey, D. (2012) Language ideologies and the globalization of standard Spanish. London:
Bloomsbury Academic. Available at:
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1050485.

Sayer, P. (2010) ‘Using the linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource’, ELT Journal,
64(2), pp. 143–154. doi: 10.1093/elt/ccp051.

Shohamy, E. G. and Gorter, D. (2009) Linguistic landscape: expanding the scenery. 1st ed.
New York: Routledge.

Shohamy, E. G., Ben Rafael, E. and Barni, M. (no date) Linguistic landscape in the city.
Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2954897.

Stewart, M. (1999) The Spanish language today. London: Routledge. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2890493.
Stockwell, P. (2007) Sociolinguistics: a resource book for students. Second edition. London:
Routledge.

Thompson, G. L. and Lamboy, E. M. (2012) Spanish in bilingual and multilingual settings
around the world. Leiden: Brill. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3007450.
Mar-Molinero, C. (1997) The Spanish Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues.
London: Routledge.

Stockwell, P. (2002) Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students. London: Routledge.

Etxebarria, Maitena (2002): La diversidad de lenguas de España, Madrid: Alianza.

MacKenzie Ian (2001) A Linguistic Introduction to Spanish. Munich: Lincom Europa.

Mar Molinero, Clare & Miranda Stewart (eds.) (2009). Globalization and Language in the Spanish-
speaking World. Palgrave MacMillan.

Mar Molinero, Clare. (2000) The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World: from Colonisation to
Globalisation. Routledge.

Stewart, Miranda. (2003) “Spanish in Contact” in The Spanish Language Today. Routledge.

Allan, J. (2019) Silenced resistance: women, dictatorships, and genderwashing in Western
Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Available at: http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3438467.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. and Tiffin, H. (2002a) The Empire writes back: theory and practice
in post-colonial literatures. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2868920.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. and Tiffin, H. (2002b) The Empire writes back: theory and practice
in post-colonial literatures. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2868920.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. and Tiffin, H. (2006) The post-colonial studies reader. 2nd ed.
London: Routledge.
Bamgboṣe, A. and International African Institute (1991) Language and the nation: the
language question in sub-Saharan Africa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the
International African Institute.
Barry, P. (1995) Beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Bertacco, S. (2014) Language and translation in postcolonial literatures: multilingual
contexts, translational texts. London, 2018: Routledge. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2810711.
Boehmer, E. (2005) Colonial and postcolonial literature: migrant metaphors. 2nd edition.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2569113.
Brouillette, S. (2011) Postcolonial writers in the global literary marketplace. New edition.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Castro, R. de (2007) Selected poems. Edited by M. Smith. Exeter: Shearsman Books.
Castro, R. de, Dever, A. and Dever, J. P. (2010) The poetry and prose of Rosalía de Castro:
a bilingual facing page edition. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3423956.
Chʻien, E. N.-M. (2004) Weird English. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
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Chitnis, R. A. et al. (eds) (2019) Translating the literatures of small European nations.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Culler, J. D. (1997a) Literary theory: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Culler, J. D. (1997b) Literary theory: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Dellita Martin-Ogunsola (2004) ‘Identity Formation Through Language and Literature in the
African-Ancestored Cultures of Spanish America: Cuba and Costa Rica’, The Black Scholar.
Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 34(1), pp. 4–17. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41069824.

Entrevista a Trifonia Melibea Obono, autora de "La bastarda” - ENTREVISTAS -
TodoLiteratura - Análisis y crítica del mundo literario - (no date). Available at:
https://www.todoliteratura.es/articulo/entrevistas/entrevista-trifonia-melibea-obono-autora
-bastarda/20161101124437033599.html.
Heywood, C. and Africa Educational Trust (1976) Papers on African literature: given at the
seminar series on African art and literature, Sheffield University, 1975-6. Sheffield:
Department of English Literature, The University.
Innes, C. L. (2007) The Cambridge introduction to postcolonial literatures in English.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2802673.
In Review: La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono - Asymptote Blog (no date). Available at:
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/05/21/in-review-la-bastarda-by-trifonia-melib
ea-obono/.
Jacob Mikanowski (2018) ‘Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over
the planet’, Guardian. Available at:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance.
Kwaku Addae Gyasi (2005) ‘Writing as Translation: African Literature and the Challenges of
Translation’, Research in African Literatures. Indiana University Press, 30(2), pp. 75–87.
Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/179356.
La bastarda, de Trifonia Melibea Obono. Ser lesbiana en Guinea Ecuatorial (no date).
Available at:
http://www.altairmagazine.com/blog/la-bastarda-la-voz-de-las-mujeres-sin-nombre/.
Loomba, A. (2015a) Colonialism/postcolonialism. Third edition. London: Routledge, Taylor
& Francis Group. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2812327.
Loomba, A. (2015b) Colonialism/postcolonialism. Third edition. London: Routledge, Taylor
& Francis Group. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2812327.
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Low, G. C.-L. (2012) Publishing the postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean
writing in the UK, 1948-1968. New York: Routledge.
Millán, C. and Bartrina, F. (eds) (2013) The Routledge handbook of translation studies.
Milton Park, Abingdon, England: Routledge. Available at:
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1108575.
Nfah-Abbenyi, J. M. (1997) Gender in African women’s writing: identity, sexuality, and
difference. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (1986) Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African
literature. London: Currey.
Obono se rebela contra el peso de la tradición en ‘La bastarda’ | El Norte de Castilla (no
date). Available at:
https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/salamanca/201610/09/obono-rebela-contra-peso-2016100
9130534.html.
Obono, T. M. (2016) La bastarda. Tercera edición. [Place of publication not identified]:
Flores Raras.
Olga Castro (2012) ‘La traducción como mecanismo de (re) canonización : el discurso
nacional y feminista de Rosalía de Castro en sus traducciones al inglés’, Quaderns: revista
de traducció, (19). Available at:
https://www.raco.cat/index.php/QuadernsTraduccio/article/view/257035.
Owomoyela, O. (ed.) (1993) A History of twentieth-century African literatures. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press.
Quayson, A. (ed.) (2011a) The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature: Volume 2.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at:
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Quayson, A. (ed.) (2011b) The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature: Volume 2.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at:
https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CHOL9781107007031.
Quayson, A. (ed.) (2012) The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature: Volume 1.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at:
https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CHOL9781107007017.
Shanguhyia, M. S. and Falola, T. (eds) (2018) The Palgrave handbook of African colonial
and postcolonial history. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at:
https://0-link-springer-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6.
Thompson, G. L. and Lamboy, E. M. (2012) Spanish in bilingual and multilingual settings
around the world. Leiden: Brill. Available at:
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3007450.
Trifonia Melibea Obono (no date) La Bastarda — Feminist Press. New York, 2018: Reminist
Press.
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Trifonia Melibea Obono: «En España me llaman ‘la negra’, en Guinea Ecuatorial ‘la
españolita’» (no date). Available at:
https://www.abc.es/cultura/cultural/abci-trifonia-melibea-obono-espana-llaman-negra-guine
a-euatorial-espanolita-201612121313_noticia.html.
Trifonia Obono‘s ’La Bastarda”: First English-Language Novel by an Equatoguinean Woman
| Brittle Paper (no date). Available at:
https://brittlepaper.com/2018/03/trifonia-melibea-obonos-la-bastarda-englishlanguage-wo
man-equatorial-guinea/.
Waïl S. Hassan (2005) ‘The Language of Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction Ismail
Talib’, Comparative Literature, 42(2), pp. 310–312. Available at:
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db
=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.40247480&site=eds-live&group=trial.
Wang, E. W. (no date) Why My Novel Uses Untranslated Chinese. Literary Hub. Available
at: http://lithub.com/why-my-novel-uses-untranslated-chinese/#.

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International

All modules delivered in SMLC are necessarily international. Students engage with themes and ideas from a culture other than that of the UK and employ their linguistic skills in the analysis of primary materials from a non-Anglophone context. Students will also be encouraged to draw on the experiences of visiting exchange students in the classroom and will frequently engage with theoretical and critical frameworks from across the world.

Subject specific skills

This module will develop students’ linguistic skills through engaging with primary materials in the target language. It will build students’ capacity to engage with aspects of Hispanic culture through analysis of this primary material and through seminar discussion aimed at deeper critical thinking. In particular, students’ awareness of the Hispanic World will be enhanced through lectures and seminars which engage in scholarship in the field.

Transferable skills

All SMLC culture modules demand critical and analytical engagement with artefacts from target-language cultures. In the course of independent study, class work and assessment students will develop the following skills: written and oral communication, creative and critical thinking, problem solving and analysis, time management and organisation, independent research in both English and their target language(s), intercultural understanding and the ability to mediate between languages and cultures, ICT literacy in both English and the target language(s), personal responsibility and the exercise of initiative.