SPAN 330: Hispanic Testimonials Courses Towards my Major
Course description:
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish. Taught in Spanish. Units:4
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish. Taught in Spanish. Units:4
Course Reflective Narrative:
This course was the first one ever to be taught here at CSUMB. Dr. Fernandez introduced us to the Testimonial Literature genre. We were able to learn what is a Testimonio and what does it consist of. We learned that in order for it to be considered a Testimonio it must complete e the following 5 points:
1. Reports an injustice, 2. Narrated in 1st person, 3. Consist of a subaltern. 4. I (collective),and 5. no political voice.
It was interesting to learn about the first pioneer in testimonial narrative Miguel Barnet, who wrote Biografia de un cimarron (1966), which is the first text to report the abuses in Cuba of African slaves. We were given various testimonies that portrayed the abuse of human rights for example in Yo me llamo Regorberta Menchu, she reports the abuse that the people Maya Quiche suffered in Guatemala, and Alicia Partnoy report the abuse that that many suffered in Argentina in the 1970 under a harsh dictatorship more than 30,000 disappearances most of them University students, and we also got to learn about Domitila de Chungara, Si me permiten hablar and she reports the abuse in Bolivian mines and the importance of the role of the women when organizing in unions. During the semester Dra. Fernandez had us interview a member in our community who is marginalized and we recorded and transcribed their interview. This then became an Anthology of Testimonios: Voices from the Shadows of Monterey County, the first in the Monterey County in the 21st century. Down below I will add a group presentation based on the Testimonial literature of La noche de Tlaltelolco by Elena Poniatowska and I will also add a picture of the Anthology we are expected to celebrate the outcome in Spring 2020.
This course was the first one ever to be taught here at CSUMB. Dr. Fernandez introduced us to the Testimonial Literature genre. We were able to learn what is a Testimonio and what does it consist of. We learned that in order for it to be considered a Testimonio it must complete e the following 5 points:
1. Reports an injustice, 2. Narrated in 1st person, 3. Consist of a subaltern. 4. I (collective),and 5. no political voice.
It was interesting to learn about the first pioneer in testimonial narrative Miguel Barnet, who wrote Biografia de un cimarron (1966), which is the first text to report the abuses in Cuba of African slaves. We were given various testimonies that portrayed the abuse of human rights for example in Yo me llamo Regorberta Menchu, she reports the abuse that the people Maya Quiche suffered in Guatemala, and Alicia Partnoy report the abuse that that many suffered in Argentina in the 1970 under a harsh dictatorship more than 30,000 disappearances most of them University students, and we also got to learn about Domitila de Chungara, Si me permiten hablar and she reports the abuse in Bolivian mines and the importance of the role of the women when organizing in unions. During the semester Dra. Fernandez had us interview a member in our community who is marginalized and we recorded and transcribed their interview. This then became an Anthology of Testimonios: Voices from the Shadows of Monterey County, the first in the Monterey County in the 21st century. Down below I will add a group presentation based on the Testimonial literature of La noche de Tlaltelolco by Elena Poniatowska and I will also add a picture of the Anthology we are expected to celebrate the outcome in Spring 2020.