SPANISH 163 - Foundational Fiction and Film | Romance Languages & Literatures

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Through novels that helped to consolidate nation-states in Latin America, explores modernity as personal and public lessons in laissez-faire. Sequels in film, telenovelas, performances show tenacity of genre. Links between creativity and citizenship. Theorists include Anderson, Foucault, Arendt, Lukacs, Flaubert.

Course conducted in Spanish.

Instructor

Doris Sommer

dsommer@fas.harvard.edu

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) and in African and African American Studies

Director of Graduate Studies

Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, also in Social Studies. She is founder of "Cultural Agents," an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving...