SPAN 260: Hispanic Literature in Translation: Websites and Films

A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.

Indians from North, Central, and South America speak of the impact the Columbus legacy has had on the lives of indigenous people.

Presents a literary biography of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of García Márquez's life, the source of his plots and characters, and the forces that have engendered his narrative style. Traces his so-called magical realism, a blending of the real and the fantastic, to the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. Explores the history of Colombia.

Drama which spans three generations of the Trueba family at whose core is the stormy yet passionate relationship between the supernaturally gifted Clara and her controlling husband Esteban.

Atkinson Lecture Series: A lecture given by Isabel Allende on October 26, 1992 at Willamette University.

"Lecture by Jane Babson for World Views, Willamette University. Oct. 19, 1992."

Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who made his home at Isla Negra on the coast of Chile. Includes views of Neruda reading his poems in the locales which inspired them.

"The literature of Latin America has always defied homogeneity--and the first decades of the 20th century were no exception. This program studies artistic responses to "Modernismo" that accompanied a deepening appreciation of local cultural currents forming across the region--currents that, however disparate, were flowing into a shared identity. The forces that paved the way for a new avant-garde ... are analyzed. The concept of 'novelas de la tierra' or 'novels of the land' is addressed, as are the writings of Alcides Arguedas, Horacio Quiroga, José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Martín Luis Guzmán, Gregorio López Fuentes, Rafael Muñoz, Nelly Campobello, and numerous others."--Films for the Humanities & Sciences website.

Based on the novel by Álvaro Mutis.
Maqroll, Ilona and Abdul are three friends tied by a shared history of smuggling, whose collective adventures have taken them all over the world. After being separated for many years, Maqroll finds himself stranded in Panama City, where he is unexpectedly reunited with Ilona...

Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States.